{"id":34624,"date":"2025-08-15T21:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=34624"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:26:06","slug":"euthanasia-prevention-coalition-newsweek-article-mass-exodus-from-organ-donation-registries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/euthanasia-prevention-coalition-newsweek-article-mass-exodus-from-organ-donation-registries\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia Prevention Coalition – Newsweek article: Mass exodus from organ donation registries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Alex Schadenberg, EPC International Chair, originally published August 13, 2025, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent out the\u00a0following media release\u00a0<\/a>on July 21, 2025 concerning organ donation and the organ transplant system in America.

Health and Human Services examined 351 organ donation approvals and determined that in 103 of the cases the dead donor rule may have been violated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organ donation is a difficult topic to write about since organ donation can save lives. I have\u00a0written about issues related to organ donation for many years<\/a>. It is a scandal that death is sometimes caused by organ removal rather than organs being retrieved from a dead donor.

Since then we have published three articles on the organ donation scandal (Article 1<\/a>) (Article 2<\/a>) (Article 3<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Rhett Miller<\/a>\u00a0reported for Newsweek on August 13<\/a>\u00a0that the recent organ donation articles have led to an unprecedented mass exodus from organ donation registries. Miller wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thousands of Americans have removed themselves from organ donor registries following “irresponsible reporting” led by the\u00a0New York Times<\/a><\/em>, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO)<\/em>, a trade group that represents 46 of the nation’s 55 federally designated nonprofit entities that help facilitate donations, accused the newspaper of a “lack of balance and accuracy” in its recent coverage of the problems in the sprawling transplant system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

An AOPO letter stated that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“These stories have directly led to the biggest increase in people removing themselves from donor registries ever recorded, putting patients waiting for transplants at greater risk,”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The AOPO letter claims both articles contained “serious factual inaccuracies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claims about factual inaccuracies don’t negate the reality that the US Health and Human Services examined 351 organ donation approvals and found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n