This is, of course, disputable. There is a kind of a vogue recurrently in the history of fiction for a kind of miraculous sense that this is just exactly the way things are.
"Evidence that any system of 'automatic' donation increases the supply of organs - whether it's called 'presumed' consent, 'deemed' consent, or 'opt-out' - is still disputable, " added the bishops.
Audrey Silk, founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, a city-based smokers' rights group, said the statistics cited by advocates are "questionable and disputable" but mostly irrelevant to the debate.