Organ Donation To Stay Optional, McGuinty Says

"We have to do more," McGuinty told reporters at a Liberal caucus retreat in Kitchener, Ont. "We're going to have to work with the concerned interests here to convince Ontarians and to urge them to take advantage of making the necessary modest effort that's required to indicate that, should something unfortunate happen to yourself, you're prepared to make your organs available." McGuinty was responding to comments from the board of the Trillium Gift of Life Network, which has decided it would be premature to establish a "presumed consent" system in which all Ontarians are automatically put on a donor list unless they indicate they don't want their organs donated upon death. "We don't believe the public of Ontario is ready," Trillium president Dr. Frank Markel told the Globe and Mail. He added that the board did not see presumed consent as a panacea for the situation in Ontario, where nearly 2,000 people are waiting for a new organs because of a shortage of donations. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1127469328828&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes

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