Research Paper on:
Ethics, Organ Donation and A Proposed Bill

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to gain insight into the ethical issues associated with organ procurement. Rep. G is concerned over the extremely long list of people who are waiting for organ transplants, which are  vital to the continuation and quality of their lives. The title of the proposed draft of this hypothetical bill is "Universal Anatomical Gift Procurement," and the bill, if passed  into law, would reverse the current policy of organ procurement in California, which indicates on drivers licenses whether or not a driver has chosen to be an organ donor, as  it would be assumed that every California driver is an organ donor unless the individual has gone through a required bureaucratic process and filled out the necessary paperwork in order  to "opt-out" of this universal program. Rep. G also proposes that people who withdraw from this universal organ program should not have access to donor organs; however, Rep. A disagrees  and feels that everyone should have access. Additional issues pertain to the criteria used to identify organs that appropriate for donation and to minors. The assignment reads that the  students recommendations should include: 1. A policy statement This writer/tutor does not understand the mandatory inclusion of a policy statement for this bill, as a policy statement implies  that a version of this bill can be drafted that is ethically sound, which this writer/tutor believes is quite far from being the case, as the entire concept is unsound  ethically on a number of levels. First of all, the bill presumes that the entire population of California shares the same anthropological and theological orientation, which is quite far from  the truth as California, as the with the rest of the country, is ethnically and racially, as well as religiously, diverse. There are some demographic groups whose culture and theological