Legislator: Bill Would Improve Organ Donation Standards

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Legislator: Bill Would

Improve Organ Donation Standards

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8:11

am EDT May 14, 2007

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A local legislator is working on a bill that would give donors

more of a voice. A red heart on a

driver's license indicates a desire to donate organs. But

Rep. Dale Folwell of Forsyth

County said officials must still

contact next of kin for approval. " That heart means nothing in North Carolina, " Folwell

said. If the legislation is passed, the

state will work with the Department of Motor Vehicles so drivers can make the

organ donation distinction online. " When

our son was an organ donor eight years ago next week, there were mothers and

fathers of children his age who were waiting on the organs of a healthy boy

like ours, " he said. The law Folwell is pushing for is called the Uniform and Anatomical

Gift Act. " It standardizes organ

donation so the wishes of the decedents will prevail, " Folwell

said.

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