IC: Ladies, Gentlemen and Others of the World Assembly.
GA #175 puts barriers between doctors and their responsibilities to their patients. By restricting donations to informed consent only, and failing to put any definition on the term "living" it restricts all donations to either conscious or dead patients. While this may seem to make sense, it in fact reduces the quantity and viability of donated organs considerably. All organs transplants have a much lower rate of success when the organs are taken from a non-living patient. Hearts in particular are almost impossible to transplant successfully from a subject that has already died. In cases of brain death but not actual death, local laws and the will of the next of kin should be respected, rather than the hamfisted rules of this resolution.
It also, rather short-sightedly, requires compatibility testing before any blood transfusion can be started. While compatibility testing should almost certainly be done, to provide the highest quality of care in cases of emergency, the medical staff should have the option to use universal donor blood. This resolution goes beyond the simple problem of being wrong, it is actually killing people in our nations. I know the WA can put together a better resolution. I know that this one must go before that can happen. Help me improve this repeal, so we can put GA #175 in the past. Together the WA can then create a resolution that doesn't cost lives, but rather saves them.
Acknowledging the principles this resolution asks us to observe and admiring its intentions,
Noting that the informed consent of a subject is impossible to acquire in the case of brain death but not actual death,
Also noting that postmortem donation of hearts is nearly impossible,
Supporting the right of next-of kin to have viable options to enforce the wishes of their loved ones in cases of brain death,
Seeking to expand the availability and viability of organs provided by still living but brain dead patients with consent of next-of-kin,
Regretting the lack of exception in compatibility testing for emergency universal donor blood transfusion,
Wishing that, in cases of emergency, universal donor blood could be used without compatibility testing and it's accompanied delay in care,
Feeling that patients in WA Member Nations deserve a higher quality of transplants and transfusions than what is currently allowed under this resolution,
Hoping to present the World Assembly an opportunity to pass a more open version of this resolution that is mindful of best medical practices,
Hereby repeals "Organ and Blood Donation Act".