Campaigners both for and against a proposed new organ transplant law have set out their arguments in a series of press conferences.
Voters will be deciding next month on a new law which will allow so called ‘presumed consent’. Those who don’t wish to have their organs donated after death will specifically have to opt out.
Those in favour point out there are 1,400 people on a waiting list for a new heart, liver, kidney or other organ, and two people die every week because there aren’t enough organs available.
But those against say our bodies are an essential part of who we are; we should always have complete control over what happens and it needs explicit consent.
They also argue it will be impossible to inform everyone in the country of the new law which will make it inevitable that organs will be removed without the agreement of the donor.
Voters will decide on May 15th.
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