‘Nobody will be against this’: Quebec wants to change organ donation rules
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Right now if you want to donate your organs after you die, you need to opt in. If the new bill becomes law, the desire to donate will be assumed unless you opt out.
A new bill tabled at the National Assembly Wednesday proposes a paradigm shift in the way Quebec deals with organ donation.
Right now if you want to donate your organs after you die, you need to opt in. If the new bill tabled by Liberal health critic André Fortin becomes law, the desire to donate will be assumed unless you opt out.
“Nobody will be against this. Everybody should be in favour of this because it saves lives,” Fortin said at a press conference. “It should become the norm.”
Fortin tried to present the same bill in 2019, but the ruling CAQ didn’t let it move forward.
Now, after a discussion between Fortin and Health Minister Christian Dubé, the government is on board.
“I think we we agreed that this should be a priority,” Dubé said Wednesday.
“I have the health minister on my side, he agreed yesterday in parliamentary committee to lobby his own party to call the bill,” Fortin explained.
It’s something that’s already been done in other jurisdictions with positive results.
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