Current Projects - Task Force on Life and the Law

Current Task Force projects (as of August 2006) include:

  • coordinating a workgroup of state health officials and outside experts to plan for resource allocation in an influenza pandemic, especially regarding ventilators;
  • considering multiple issues relating to organ donation and transplantation, including live donor protections, guidelines for donation after cardiac death, and the ethical consequences of providing incentives for organ donation; and
  • examining ethical issues and options for state government regarding stem cell research.