Courtesy of Lancaster Online
THE ISSUE
The number of kidney, liver, heart and lung donors in Pennsylvania doesn’t come close to meeting the needs of those awaiting transplants, The Caucus, an LNP Media Group watchdog publication focused on state government, reported in last week’s Sunday LNP. And the General Assembly has not acted on potential solutions to the organ shortage. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, 253 Pennsylvanians died on a transplant waiting list last year, while 1,554 received organs.
The anxiety of waiting for an organ transplant is beyond our imagination.
The anxiety that comes with waiting for a loved one to receive an organ transplant must be terrible, too.
So we understand those who want lawmakers to do more to ease the organ transplant shortage.
But some of the solutions posed raise some tough ethical questions.
Read more from the LNP Editorial Board in the full piece here.