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===Religious opposition=== A number of religious sects [[Religious views on organ donation|prohibit organ donation]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1705993-overview|title=Religions and the Autopsy: Overview, Islam, Judaism|date=30 June 2020|via=eMedicine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/life-after-death-donating-your-body-for-research-1623676.html|title=Life after death: Donating your body for research|date=17 February 2009|website=The Independent}}</ref> Ultra-Orthodox Jews oppose [[Organ donation in Jewish law#Ultra-Orthodox opposition|''post mortem'' organ donation]], and have tried to pass laws against unclaimed cadavers being used in research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-2-pols-change-unclaimed-cadaver-law-article-1.2165881|title=Two state lawmakers want to change law requiring morgues, hospitals to give unclaimed bodies to schools|first=Glenn|last=Blain|website=nydailynews.com|date=29 March 2015 }}</ref> A number of religious organizations, including Catholic<ref name="KTVI">{{Cite news|author=KTVI |title=No Body World Exhibit For Catholic Field Trips |url=http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4201800&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623080125/http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4201800&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 |archive-date=23 June 2008 |publisher=[[Fox Television Stations]] |date=28 August 2007 |access-date=17 September 2008|url-status=usurped |author-link=KTVI }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rcav.org/2010-09-30-concerns-about-body-worlds/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413125000/http://rcav.org/2010-09-30-concerns-about-body-worlds/|url-status= dead|title=Archdiocese of Vancouver β Body Worlds Exhibit|archive-date=13 April 2014}}</ref> and Jewish<ref>{{cite web|author=Deborah Sussman Susser |url=http://www.jewishaz.com/issues/story.mv?070209+body |title='Body Worlds' comes to Phoenix β Jewish News of Greater Phoenix |publisher=Jewishaz.com |date=9 February 2007 |access-date=25 February 2010}}</ref> ones, object to the display of plastinated body parts at public exhibitions.
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