Abstract
To Editor.— The Council on Scientific Affairs has addressed issue of organ donor recruitment (1982; 246:2157). Reference is made to Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA), which does not always involve donation. The UAGA takes away individual's right to refuse being an organ donor unless there is available an notice of contrary indications by decedent. In absence of such actual notice, there is incorporated into UAGA a descending order of classes of persons who may grant authority for use of all or part of decedent's body, eventually reaching any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose of body. Furthermore, the persons authorized... may make gift after death or immediately before death. While UAGA does not distinguish these two states, there is certainly a difference from point of view of defenseless individual. While members of
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