Organ Donation California Essay

Educating the Public on Organ Donation in Order to Yield a Higher Output of Organ Donors in California For those of us who have gotten our driver’s licenses, we were asked if we would like to be an organ donor. The State of California, by default, registers each person as a non-donor and upon receiving a license people can decide to “opt in” and become an organ donor. Yes, this system does work and it has for over 4 decades, but it has a significant drawback. There are over 123,000 people across the country waiting for an organ transplant, with 22,000 of those people living in California. The transplant is their only remaining medical option. The fact is that there are not enough donors, and there is no foreseeable increase in registration. Approximately 22 people in the U.S. die everyday because they had to wait for a specific organ(s). The issue is that there are too few organs, we need to get more. California must adopt a solution to this problem since over 17% of the Americans waiting on organ donations live in this state. A proposed solution to this problem is the presumed consent system. California and the nation as a whole need more organ donors. According to this method, the State would automatically presume that everyone consented to being a donor except those who specifically said …show more content…
What we need is a pre-educated public. The goal is to have teens and adults receiving their licenses to be informed on the decisions they are making before they walk into the DMV. Above all, all of the actions of the past fifty years regarding the areas of health care and the body have been to ensure the right of individuals to make their own informed decisions, such as efforts that outlawed involuntary castration and laws to ensure that patients consent to the procurement and utilization of organs, tissue, and cells for research or for-profit