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Dear Volunteers and Donate Life Advocates,

Senate Bill 850 was successfully reported out of the Appropriations Committee on Monday and it is VITAL that it be passed by the full Senate next week.

To those of you who have already made calls and written to your senators, THANK YOU!—but we still need your help! We need you to keep calling! Please challenge 4 of your friends or family members to make a call as well.

In support of the upcoming vote, we are asking all of our volunteers who live or work in Pennsylvania to call (or write) their state senator:

• Ask them to VOTE YES and support SB 850 (if you’re told they support the bill, be sure to thank them!)

• Urge them to contact leadership to ensure that SB 850 gets a vote by the full Senate

• Remind them that the hospitals and the community support  and needs this bill

• Finally, let them know that you support the bill because it will save the lives of those on the waiting list



A list of telephone numbers for all Senate offices is attached and you can find your senator by entering your Pennsylvania address here: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/

Finally, if you haven’t already done so, please sign the petition at http://www.savealifenowpa.org/join-us/ and share it with your friends and family.

Thank you for your continued support and hard work- keep us updated on your Senator calls and send any questions our way!

Kari Rowe

Volunteer Coordinator
Gift of Life Donor Program
401 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
215-557-8090 ext.1132
www.donors1.org

 

Please.......

OK now I don't ask for much but if any of you can appreciate my being here at all, (and I know it's hard some days) or anyone else that you know that has benefited from a transplant, could you please consider signing this online petition in support of The Donate Life in PA Act?  No money. No hassles. No hard time. Just your name on an email document.

The Donate Life in PA Act is summed up like this : 

Pennsylvania has long been a national leader in organ and tissue donation and transplantation. We are home to many of the finest transplant programs in the country, but with that comes the responsibility to advocate for those awaiting a second chance at life. There are more than 8,300 people waiting for an organ transplant in Pennsylvania. Over the past ten years, nearly 500 of those waiting in Pennsylvania have died annually—or about nine people each week. I came very close to being one of those nine.

The first step towards solving this public health crisis is passing the Donate Life PA Act. This legislation will ensure that more life-saving organs are actually donated by increasing public awareness about the issue. It accomplishes this by bringing education about donation and transplantation to high schools, nursing schools and medical schools. Pennsylvania lags far behind national leaders in donor designation on driver’s licenses. Education in schools and instruction of those being trained as medical professionals can help remedy this by dispelling myths about donation.

The Donate Life PA Act also strengthens regulatory oversight by ensuring that all anatomical donations are initially referred to a federally-designated and regulated organ procurement organization (OPO). It also specifically prevents the type of unregulated recovery of tissue that led to the Biomedical Tissue Services scandal involving the theft of body parts at Pennsylvania funeral homes.

The Donate Life PA Act will help save the lives of people awaiting transplant in Pennsylvania. We ask for your support in passing this important legislation as soon as possible. Every day of delay puts more lives at risk.

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If you feel really zealous, those of you living in Pennsylvania could let your State Senator know your feelings on this.

Find your legislator

Here are a few other links to help you along:

Save a Life Now PA - Donate Life PA Act One Step Further to Passage

 

IF NOTHING ELSE......could you please sign this?  

Join Us | Save a Life Now PA

I thank you, as do the 8,541 (as of this very minute) people in Pennsylvania that are waiting for a transplant.