Three ethical issues around pig heart transplants
A pig’s heart has been used in a human transplant operation – what are the questions to consider? …
Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta, the country’s central authority for issuing religious rulings, has said in a fatwa that pig heart valves are allowed if “there is fear for the patient’s life, the loss of one of his organs, exacerbation or continuation of the disease or an overwhelming deterioration of the body”.
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