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Anencephalics as organ donors
1Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37223.
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
This paper reviews objections to the proposal to allow parents of anencephalics to donate their infant's organs for transplantation and finds them unpersuasive. Instead, interpretations of 'Baby Doe' legislation, a 'higher-brain' functional conception of death, the idea of 'viability' in many abortion statutes, and the wishes of many patients, give strong support for the proposal for organ transplantation using anencephalics.

