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" If you read the news yesterday, you&amp;#039;d be forgiven for thinking you&amp;#039;d stepped into a Margaret Atwood novel. A transplant surgeon has sparked controversy by suggesting pregnant women whose babies are unlikely to survive could be asked to consider carrying them to term, so that their organs can be donated.  In the last two years, 11 babies less than two months old have been organ donors but the Mail on Sunday has speculated that the NHS hopes to increase this up to 100 each year.\u00A0Niaz Ahmad, a transplant surgeon at St James&amp;#039;s University Hospital in Leeds, said the NHS was considering proposals to let doctors tell the women that babies could be carried to term so that the organs could be given to another patients.  Rare but deadly diseases are often diagnosed well before birth. Many parents choose to abort the pregnancy when they learn their child won&amp;#039;t survive, but a few decide to continue, often for religious reasons. \u00A0Mr Ahmad told the Mail on Sunday: \u00A0&amp;quot;There is a real potential for using these organs. We are going to discuss whether it is an option, somehow, to tell women in this situation that organ donation is an option.&amp;quot; (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = &amp;quot;//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;amp;amp;version=v2.3&amp;quot;; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, &amp;#039;script&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;facebook-jssdk&amp;#039;));   There is an article in the Mail on Sunday 6th March implying that the NHS will pressure women carrying babies diagnosed...Posted by NHS Organ Donation on\u00A0Saturday, 5 March 2016    But the NHS Blood and Transplant service said there was no aim to increase the number of organ transplants from young babies. It would support parents who chose to volunteer donations, but it certainly wouldn&amp;#039;t encourage women who&amp;#039;d made the heartbreaking decision to end the pregnancy to reconsider.\u00A0  Doctors are only allowed to even discuss taking organs from a newborn baby if they are approached by the parents themselves. A spokesman for NHS Blood and Transplant clarified this in a statement, saying: &amp;quot;NHS Blood and Transplant wants to reassure the public that we have no way of knowing about anyone who is pregnant with a baby that is unlikely to survive. The only way we would ever find out about such babies is if a pregnant woman expressed a wish to donate the baby&amp;#039;s organs and they were referred to use by their clinical team because they asked for this.&amp;quot; The NetDoctor newsletter delivers\u00A0the latest healthy living news straight to your inbox. Make sure you never miss out by signing\u00A0up here...  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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