The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office said it is investigating the allegation against Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, which recently merged with an Ohio organ-procurement organization.

Greg Segal, who heads an advocacy group called Organize, told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations subcommittee about the accusation during questioning by Chairman Morgan Griffith (R., Va.).

The allegation was made by a former Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates employee, who said in a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal that she, a surgeon and other workers in 2021 refused to procure the organs of a man who was “crying” and “shaking his head ‘No’.”

Segal also said an employee of another procurement group had related a similar incident involving a patient who mouthed the words “Help me.” Segal didn’t provide the name of the group or more details.

Robert Cannon, director of the liver-transplant program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told the committee he too was involved in such an incident and refused to procure the organs, “which would have been murder.” He also didn’t specify further.

天哪! 太可怕了, 这些例子里人都还是清醒的!