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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
U.S. Citizens Get More Organs Than They Give
Donations From Foreign Residents on the Rise
The whispers started as soon as Jesica Santillan was declared dead nine days ago. Should two sets of hearts and lungs -- considered the scarcest transplantable organs -- have gone to an illegal immigrant?
But American citizens are more likely to benefit from organs donated by noncitizens than the other way around, according to the nation's coordinating transplant agency.
"As a percentage, every year, U.S. citizens receive more organs than they donate," said Anne Paschke, a spokeswoman for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which links organ donors with recipients nationwide.
In 2001, the last complete year for which statistics are available, U.S. citizens received 96.2 percent of the transplants in the country, Paschke said. By contrast, 94.8 percent of organ donors were citizens.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Mar2.html
For all the GFY haters that complained!
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Do you sit around all day surfing the web looking for anything remotley anti-American thing you can find and then post it here?
It's obvious you don't care who the sourse is as long as there is a link to it - it must be true?
Try another hobby - it's really getting old and very predictable.
