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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Cycle 3 in my corresponcence with Mark on fetal tissue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.221723.1732@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:17:23 GMT
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- mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
-
- > From the one anencephalic baby, we could have harvested 1 heart, 2
- > lungs, 2 kidneys, a liver suitable for ressection to provide
- > transplants for as many as 3 others, bone marrow, and 2 corneas.
- > Transplant recipients had been identified with tissue matches for the
- > heart, both lungs, both kidneys, and 2 liver sections. Bone marrow had
- > not been matched yet. Neither had corneas, but they are relatively
- > easy to match.
- >
- > Since people who call themselves Pro-Life took steps to halt any organ
- > donations until after brain death, this is the outcome:
- > The recipients for the heart, both lungs, 1 kidney and 1 liver section
- > are now dead. The other kidney, liver, and bone marrow recipients are
- > still waiting and hoping. The corneas were eventually used.
-
- It appears as though Mark Cochran is making up the facts as he
- goes along. My local paper said that NO matches had been found
- for the baby's organs:
-
- "The baby's organs were not being donated. Doctors had said
- Baby Theresa's organs would be too damaged for use as transplants
- by the time she died, and no matching recipients were immediately
- found."
-
- The Raleigh News and Observer, March 31, 1992
-
- Mark Cochran appears to be completely unaware of the medical
- establishment's strong ethical stance taken against using
- anencephalic infants as organ donor sources:
-
- "``We have had no interest in it from the organ procurement side
- because of all the problems associated with it,'' said Wanda
- Bond, a spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing.
-
- ``It's such a small number of individuals that could be helped
- that the question is, `Does it make sense to go through all
- this?' Clearly, in the medical community the answer is it
- doesn't.''"
-
- In response to proposals to change the legal definition of death
- to include anencephalic infants, the authors of an article in the
- Aug. 10, 1989 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine concluded
- that ``the weight of medical evidence and ethical and practical
- arguments strongly favor retaining current law.'' An article
- in the March 31, 1989 issue of the JAMA made similar conclusions
- against using anencephalic infants as organ donor sources.
-
- BTW, does anyone know where Mark Cochran studies or practices
- medicine? I wouldn't want to be admitted into a hospital where
- he works, and have him standing over my bed, ready to take out
- my organs once I fall asleep.
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
-
-