Thu Nov 3, 2022 – 1:41 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Bioethicists are raising concerns that a new organ harvesting protocol, in which a recently-deceased person’s heart is restarted while a surgeon induces brain death to be able to remove organs from a “warm” body, is blurring the line between life and death.
“With little attention or debate, transplant surgeons across the country are experimenting with a kind of partial resurrection: They’re allowing terminal patients to die, then restarting their hearts while clamping off blood flow to their brains,” MedPageToday reported in late September.
Read: Re-examining ‘brain death’: Doctors may be harvesting organs before donors are dead
The article goes on to explain that the procedure, which “allows the surgeons to inspect and remove organs from warm bodies with heartbeats,” has led numerous bioethicists and other health professionals to raise concerns that the controversial procedure is “trampling the line between life and death.”
“We’re so hungry for organs right now that we are pushing all the limits,” critical care physician and transplant pulmonologist at Vanderbilt University told MedPageToday. “I just want us to be super-cautious. We need to press the pause button on this and have some
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