Undocumented and Organ Donor?
Question put to Ethics is: Ought the transplant program evaluate and accept undocumented persons as living donors of a kidney?
Note: This transplant program, and others asked, typically have not transplanted (recipient) undocumented persons. Public insurance apparently is not available without legal immigration status; although for a documented person/patient recipient of an organ, public insurance (or private, if they have it) is apt to pay medical expenses both for recipient and donor.
Note: This transplant program, and others asked, typically have not transplanted (recipient) undocumented persons. Public insurance apparently is not available without legal immigration status; although for a documented person/patient recipient of an organ, public insurance (or private, if they have it) is apt to pay medical expenses both for recipient and donor.
Are there nonetheless compelling moral grounds for not using as living donors persons without papers--or for doing so?
Labels: organ donations; organ transplants; medical ethics; bioethics
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