To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS Contact: Bryan Stewart of Donate Life California, +1-213-229- 5650, fax, +1-213-229-5601, bstewart@onelegacy.org LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct.

By Josh Jarman, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Sep. 6--Who speaks for the dead? It's a question that has Ohio county coroners and organ-donation officials at odds over legislation expected to be proposed in the Statehouse.

A model law updating U.S. organ donation procedures that is being circulated among states is raising ethics concerns about dying patients' rights and wishes.

PIERRE, S.D., March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- South Dakota is leading the national movement to adopt the 2006 Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) by becoming an early adopter of the legislation on Friday when Governor Rounds signed the new Act into law.

The gap between available human organs and patients who need them remains discouragingly wide in the United States. More than 94,000 Americans are on waiting lists, and 7,000 die each year awaiting a transplant that will never come. ...