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Kids under 15 can donate organs
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A bill to revise the Organ Transplant Law and scrap the donor age minimum at 15 gained full Diet passage when it cleared the Upper House on July 13.
The bill, known as Plan A, which won Lower House approval last month, allows brain-dead children under age 15 to be organ donors with the family's consent and recognizes brain death as legal death.
In a plenary session of the 242-member Upper House, the bill cleared the chamber by a 138-82 vote in just minutes.
The previous transplant law, enacted 12 years ago, forbids brain-dead people under age 15 from becoming organ donors. Supporters of Plan A had aimed to revise the law to increase the self-sufficiency of domestic organ availability, but some lawmakers argued brain death is too sensitive an issue. Brain death, according to Japan Organ Transplant Network, means an irreversible end to all brain activity. (The Japan Times)
15歳未満の子からの臓器提供が可能に
15歳未満の子どもからの臓器提供を可能にする改正臓器移植法が7月13日、参議院を通過し、成立した。
Shukan ST: July 24, 2009
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