- Vote ‘real breakthrough’, says Dutch Kidney Foundation
Senators in the Netherlands have approved a new law making all Dutch adults organ donors after death, unless they opt out.
The bill narrowly passed in the upper house of the Dutch parliament, more than a year after MPs passed the legislation.
Pia Dijkstra, who drafted the bill, said under the new system every person over 18 who is not yet registered as a donor will receive a letter asking if they want to donate their organs after…
The law, which passed 38 to 36, is similar to those in Belgium and…