UPDATE: The House co-sponsor weighs in.
A state lawmaker plans to kill her organ donor bill, saying she doesn’t have the votes to get it out of committee and the reaction to it has been so negative.
Under the proposal by Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, anyone with a Colorado driver’s license or ID card is presumed to be an organ donor unless the person initials a statement opting out of the program. Currently, a person must initial their ID card to be considered a donor.
“There is a lot of misinformation out there and people are scared and upset. It’s just causing too much fear,” she said.
“I feel sad about it because on one hand there was so much support for it, so much need for it. The whole goal was to save lives, but people are not well with it.”