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Change Organ Donation to Opt-out rather than Opt-in

Submitted on Thursday 5th March 2015

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change Organ Donation to Opt-out rather than Opt-in

Additional Information

Currently citizens must choose to become organ donors. Only 29% of the population are organ donors despite 90% of people stating that they support organ donation; this discrepancy is largely due to people not "getting round" to registering. An opt-out policy would still allow people of strong conviction to not donate their organs after death while preventing people, who are otherwise supportive, forgetting to register. This will dramatically help the 10,000 people in the UK who need an organ transplant.


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