Modern Orthodox organ-donor campaign slammed

13.01.2012                      18.Tewet. 5772

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Modern Orthodox organ-donor campaign slammed

Bilvavi organ-donor card called unnecessary, wasteful and harmful to transplantation.

A voluntary organization of strict modern-Orthodox Israeli Jews is sending representatives to synagogues, hesder yeshivot and women’s seminaries to register donors for a Bilvavi organ-donor card – even though it has been called unnecessary, wasteful and harmful to transplantation by the government’s Israel Transplant Center and ADI organization.
The campaign has drawn considerable controversy as Israel Transplant has extended by three months (until the end of March) an offer of higher priority to ADI donorcard signatories, instead of waiting a few years to earn such a benefit personally and for first-degree relatives….