  The debate is likely to continue for many years about whether beneficence or respect for autonomy should prevail in public policy governing organ retrieval. Advocates of the current system argue that individual and family rights of consent should retain dominance. Advocates of routine retrieval argue that traditional social priorities involving beneficence in conflict with autonomy have been wrongly structured. Meanwhile, most contributors to the literature on the subject agree that the present situation of low-level organ-procurement is morally unsatisfactory and in need of some significant measure of reform.