AT VOTE: Biomedical Donor Rights [Complete] [Complete]

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Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Mousebumples

Biomedical Donor Rights:
Description: THE WORLD ASSEMBLY:

BELIEVES that all individuals should be accorded specific rights and protections under WA law.

REALIZES that many live donors of biomedical tissues often are donors for altruistic reasons and may receive no personal benefit from the procedure.

WISHES to ensure that donors of biomedical tissues shall not be exploited or discriminated against in any way throughout the donation process.

SPECIFIES that “biomedical tissues” shall include, at minimum, the following:

  1. Blood and blood products, such as platelets and plasma.
  2. Organs, such as the kidneys, liver, and heart.
  3. Stem cells, such as embryonic stem cells, those found in the bone marrow and the umbilical cord, and other adult stem cells.
DETAILS that "biomedical procedures" shall include, at minimum, the donation, harvesting, transplantation, or transfusion of biomedical tissues.
DECLARES that prospective donors of biomedical tissues shall not be discriminated against without a valid medical rationale, such as blood and tissue typing or the presence of a dangerous contagion.

REQUIRES that the donation process for biomedical procedures shall involve:

  1. Techniques that are as humane as is practicable using appropriate sterile technique for the procedure in question.
  2. Testing and typing of the donor and donated biomedical tissues in order to:
    • Ensure that the donor, if a living donor, is healthy enough to undergo the donation procedure.
    • Determine whether or not a disease or infection is present in the biomedical tissue.
    • Simplify the matching of donated biomedical tissues with recipients so as to minimize negative transfusion reactions, biomedical tissue rejection, and the transference of disease or infection.
MANDATES that prospective donors shall be given all medically relevant facts regarding the biomedical procedure prior to obtaining their uncoerced, informed consent.
  1. A legally completed advance health care directive (e.g. living will) shall be followed in order to respect the wishes of the individual in question.
  2. In the absence of a legally completed advance health care directive, WA member nations may permit an individual's legal guardian or next-of-kin to provide uncoerced, informed consent on behalf of a donor in the event that the individual in question is under the threshold of majority or is otherwise unable to understand the information in question.
RECOMMENDS that individual WA member nations adopt an opt-out system for biomedical tissue donation from irreversibly "brain dead" donors, in the absence of a legally completed advance health care directive.
DECREES that the medical staff that determines whether or not an individual is irreversibly "brain dead" shall not include members of the transplant staff and shall not be influenced to provide false declarations that an individual is irreversibly "brain dead."

PERMITS individual WA Nations and their health care systems to delay or defer donation of biomedical tissues due to a donor's co-existing medical condition, which may place a potential recipient at risk; if such a medical condition exists, WA nations are urged to make all reasonable attempts at treatment so as to allow the donation to occur.
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Mousebumples:
Hey, Eluvatar! I finally got 3 of my organ and stem cell replacements submitted. Yay! :) As a refresher, they are:

  1. Biomedical Donor Rights is a human rights resolution, which will protect those (often) altruistic individuals within our nations who are willing to donate their blood, organs, or stem cells for the benefit of others. The forum thread can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=198807
  2. Biomedical Recipient Rights is another human rights resolution, which will protect those who are medically in need. Its clauses work to make transplants and transfusions as safe and successful as possible. The forum thread can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=198808
  3. Biomedical Innovation Organization is an educational resolution, which will help to foster further developments and innovations in this arena. It will also provide educational programs for member nations, which should work to increase citizen knowledge about the donation process and increase the availability of biomedical tissues for medical procedures. The forum thread can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=193537
They’re all in a row on the first page of the GA proposals, if that helps you locate them in the proposal list.

Thanks (hopefully) for your support! :) Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. And, of course, I'll be lurking on the TNP boards, too, if anything comes up during the debate process there.
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The Minister of the World Assembly has reviewed the GA proposal. I have seen that this proposal keeps basic safeguards in place for the donors to ensure their safety and that the procedure goes smoothly. The Ministry of the World Assembly believes this to be common sense, and that all the parties involved in a biomedical tissue donation deserve rights.

Nations for themselves need to decide whether all parties involved in a donation of biological materials deserve protection.

As a note, the Minister of the World Assembly does not expect to be able to out-argue a healthcare worker on the topic of medical issues, and is not even going to try.
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If this helps Mahaj (or any of you, really), here's a quick recap of what I feel are some of the more important rights/protections established within this resolution:
  • Ensures that individuals who wish to donate biomedical tissues shall not be discriminated against.
  • Procedures used for donation will be done humanely with sterile technique.
  • Requires consent of the donors, and places a priority on following the wishes of individuals as stated in advance health care directives (i.e. a living will).
  • Separates the "declaring an individual as being brain dead" process from the transplant process, to avoid conflicts of interest and potentially biased/false declarations.
I tried to keep much of the details fairly general - so that individual nations can determine what approaches work best for them - but I feel that the rights and protections established here are fairly important to cover in all member nations.
 
Since my opinion on this matter as a two time GA author is irrelevant I will not bother sharing my views. I will, however, tip my hat to Mousebumples and send her my regards :hello:
 
GA Resolution at Vote: Biomedical Donor Rights
http://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/6960286/

2 (Jamie Anumia, Eastern Hungry [NPA]) for; 1 against (Sauna); 1 abstain (Cormac Stark [NPA]); 0 present

To vote one must have a WA nation in TNP or be a member of NPA. I vote for if most of the votes are in for, and against if most of the votes are against. I don't count "present" votes as votes for this. This means that a vote for abstain is a vote against my voting either way.

Not voting
 
I will continue to vote and demand the delegate take into account all members of the region. To deny RA members, regardless of WA membership is a violation of the Bill of Rights.

Against.
 
GA Resolution at Vote: Biomedical Donor Rights
http://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/6960286/

3 (Jamie Anumia, Eastern Hungry [NPA], Chasmanthe [NPA]) for; 2 against (Sauna, Redamerica); 1 abstain (Cormac Stark [NPA]); 0 present

To vote one must have a WA nation in TNP or be a member of NPA. I vote for if most of the votes are in for, and against if most of the votes are against. I don't count "present" votes as votes for this. This means that a vote for abstain is a vote against my voting either way.

Still not voting
 
Biomedical Donor Rights was passed 8,856 votes to 816.

(I did not vote).

Voting on this resolution has ended.

Thanks to those nations who cast their votes. Your participation is a great help to the region.

This topic has been locked and sent to the Archives for safekeeping. If you would like this topic to be re-opened for further discussion, please contact the WA Delegate, a Global Moderator, or an Administrator for assistance. Thank you.
 
Voting on this resolution has ended.

Thanks to those nations who cast their votes. Your participation is a great help to the region.

This topic has been locked and sent to the Archives for safekeeping. If you would like this topic to be re-opened for further discussion, please contact the WA Delegate, a Global Moderator, or an Administrator for assistance. Thank you.
 
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