Is presumed consent the answer to organ shortages?

At a late stage in the editorial process, we shortened a sentence in this Head to Head article by Linda Wright (BMJ 2007;334:1089, 26 May doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.492894.AD) in such a way that it seemed to be the author who was claiming that more people might donate kidneys if there was a financial incentive. In fact, she was repeating other people's claims.