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Sour Anatomy Donation Bill
Gets Unanimous Approval
Journal Capita! Bureau
BATON ROUGE —
Shreveport Rep. Art Sour's bill
allowing a Louisiana resident
to sign an agreement on his
driver's license to donate any
part of his anatomy at his
death got unanimous approval
from a House committee this
morning.
The bill, patterned after
Tennessee law, was opposed
by the state drivers license
bureau because the nine-line
statement would take up too
much room on the license, and
could pose problems for
policemen attending at
accident sites.
Under the bill, a person
would signify in front of
witnesses when he got his
driver's license that he would
authorize the donation of
certain organs upon his death.
The authorization would be
printed on the back of his
driver's license.
IN LOUISIANA, it probably
would replace present printing
on the license warning that
minors may not legally drive
between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The bill was amended to
include a clause removing any
liability of the state, the
hospital or the attending
physician involved in making
the organ transfer under
provisions of the bill.
Sour said his bill would help
the "hundreds" of people now
needing dialysis for kidney
diseases who are waiting for
transplantable kidneys to
become available.
WITH HIM were Dr. Julio
F i g u r a , president of
the Louisiana Kidney
Foundation and head of the
transplant program. at the
Ocshner Clinic in New
Orleans, Dr. James Johnson,
associate professor of
medicine at LSU Medical
School in Shreveport, and Dr.
Frank Gonzales, professor of
medicine at LSU Medical
School in New Orleans.
Dr. Figura estimated 80 per
cent of those carrying drivers
licenses would be willing to
sign the agreement "if we
were able to educate the
public."
' ' T h e p r a c t i c a l
consideration is you have
thousands of people waiting
for transplants," said Dr.
Johnson. With more cadaver
kidneys available, more
people neeting new kidneys
could be served.
HUGH D. Stiles,
administrator of the state
drivers license bureau, argued
that it would be better to carry
the donor's authorization on
dogtags or bracelets than on
drivers licenses.
He suggested the policemen
attending at the scene of an
accident might be risking their
lives to look for a rider's
drivers license, and that
deleting the warning about
minor drivers could mean
"saving one life for another;
exchanging one thing for
another."
"If we want to save lives,
let's go about it in a practical
manner," he said.
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| Title | Sour Anatomy Donation Bill Gets Unanimous Approval |
| Subject |
Sour, Art Transplantation Organ Donors Louisiana Legislation |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Journal |
| Date | 1974-06-28 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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