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But it has already raised several ethical concerns about what could happen once money is attached to something that&#8217;s always been an altruistic act. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/1999\/11\/12\/november-12-1999-ethics-of-organ-donations\/22082\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[982,5362],"class_list":["post-22082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-medicine","tag-organ-donation","topics-health-and-medicine","topics-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>November 12, 1999 ~ Ethics of Organ Donations | November 12, 1999 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Should states offer financial incentives to encourage people to become organ donors?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/1999\/11\/12\/november-12-1999-ethics-of-organ-donations\/22082\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"November 12, 1999 ~ Ethics of Organ Donations | November 12, 1999 | Religion &amp; 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