Pig hearts transplanted into brain-dead patients at NYU | USA TODAY

Doctors are testing transplanting pig parts as a possible alternative for patients seeking new organs.

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More than 100,000 people sit on organ transplant lists, hoping for someone else's tragedy to make a kidney, heart, liver or lungs available for them. Pig parts offer a possible alternative.Bioethicists generally support the idea of xenotransplantation, though animal rights activists say they wouldn't be needed if more people were organ donors.

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  1. I said the same thing a pig heart what in the chicken land is going on in this world let’s see if a pigs heart will work in us humans SMH

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  2. Amplified Bible
    Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior]. Romans 8:1

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