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To the Editor: The Sounding Board article by Hanto on the ethical challenges posed by solicitation of organ donation (March 8 issue)¹ does not clearly distinguish between directed donation and solicitation. Although effective solicitation requires directed donation to unrelated persons, the converse is not true. Nevertheless, Hanto conflates solicitation and directed donation and concludes that both should be banned.

Hanto's view that donation of organs to strangers should be nondirected is widely accepted.² One justification for this is to prevent ugly discrimination, such as when a member of the Ku Klux Klan would direct organs only to white recipients.¹ But . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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