BDF Model Bill Enacted: Banning Post-Abortion Organ Harvesting
June
24, 2016. The “dead donor rule” is a longstanding ethical norm that
protects the integrity of human organ donation by providing that (a)
organ donors must be dead before procurement of organs begins, and (b)
organ procurement itself must not cause the death of the donor.
In
addition to laying bare the horror of abortion in general, the videos
and newly obtained evidence before the House Select Committee on Infant
Lives raise serious questions about how the abortion industry targets
the living bodies of unborn human beings by using the prospect of
research to incentivize women to have abortions.
This is unethical coercion and exploitation of women who are often still in the decision making process.
On
June 16, 2016, Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana signed
legislation that prohibits the buying, selling or donation of human
organs and body parts obtained from aborted human beings.
Based
on a BDF model bill, HB 815 was co-authored by Rep. Julie Stokes
(R-Dist.79) and Sen. Regina Barrow (D-Dist.15), and passed both houses
with overwhelming bipartisan support.
BDF attorneys Nikolas T.
Nikas and Dorinda C. Bordlee encourage Congress and the States to
likewise adopt this legislation based on the proposed Legislative
Findings and Talking Points highlighted at the link below.
Nikas and Bordlee can be reached for pro bono consultation at info@bdfund.org.
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