OHIO New License Plates Promote Organ Donation

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April 4, 2007

New

License Plates Promote Organ Donation

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio

has more than 130 specialty license plates, and another was added to promote

organ donations. Donor groups said it

was the start of an ambitious plan to dramatically increase registered donors. About

half of Ohio drivers chose to

list themselves now as possible donor, but donor organizations believe numbers

would be higher if more people heard the stories about what happened when an

organ was donated. " We knew that he felt organ donations were a good

thing, " said Nina Frederick, whose son was an organ donor. Frederick

lost her son in a Columbus

car accident. The 20-year-old had signed up to be an organ donor. About half of Ohio's

registered drivers are already on the donor list and more than 2,500 people in Ohio

are waiting for a lifesaving organ. The Fredericks

said they are glad their son chose to donate his organs. They said they have

talked to the four people who received their son's organs, and when they met

the person who received his heart, they were able to hear 's heartbeat.

Donor groups

are aiming for another 800 drivers to sign up to become a donor in the year or

two. They said the plates will give them publicity and part of the plate fee

will go to an education fund.

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