Max and Keira’s Law, which will presume consent to donate, will give 700 people a year reason to be grateful, writes author Cole Moreton
‘From April 2020 it will be assumed that everyone is willing to be an organ donor after death, unless they have said otherwise.’ Photograph: Philip Toscano/PAives will be saved. Hundreds of them, every year. That’s the first and most important thing to say about theYou may already know it as, after the young boy and girl whose story inspired politicians of all parties to get behind a change that will take us from having to opt in as an organ donor to having to opt out.
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