Posted on 04/25/2008 3:39:49 PM PDT by John Semmens
Despite the fact that Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys to her mother, the United Kingdom’s Human Tissue Authority declared that the disposition of the deceased woman’s organs would be determined by normal protocol.
“People may believe that their bodies and organs belong to them,” said Carl Marks, spokesman for the Human Tissue Authority. “But they’d be wrong. It is the collective well-being of the nation is the governing factor. The law has declared that bodies and organs are the public’s resources and appointed us to decide how they will be distributed.”
To emphasize this point, Marks cited the government’s plan to do away with the requirement that people must give their consent for their organs to be “harvested.” “I think this states pretty clearly who owns what and it’s not the individual,” Marks said.
“There are thousands of people on the waiting lists for transplants,” Marks continued. “Why should a person without one functioning kidney suffer when the vast majority have more than they need? Look, we drafted whole bodies to serve the nation during the War. Drafting a kidney, lung, or eye is a lesser burden on the individual than that. It’s the next logical step for the National Health Service.”
Ms. Ashworth’s mother, Rachel Leake, urgently needs a kidney and as a diabetic she could also have benefited from receiving her daughter's pancreas. Leake says her daughter “would be devastated that she was not able to help her mum.” The daughter’s organs were given to two men and a woman.
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HillaryCare.
The ultimate in governmental arrogance if this is a real article. I have to wonder at the name Carl Marks. If it is real I would take a modicum of pleasure in harvesting his organs with a claymore.
What law?
That law is unConstitutional.
And that megalomaniac need to be informed that McDonalds is hiring.
WTF?
Satire.
DITTO
Yeah.
And it has a precise name.
Fascism
It is impossible to grasp the true concept of Fascism without returning to an age of clarity and facts vs opinion and editorializing; before personal definitions, euphemisms, the puerile, self-serving age of "depends of what the definition of "is", is.
According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Collier-Macmillan, Volumes 3-4, 1967, pp182-183 et seq.:
...whereas Liberalism, socialism, democracy, and the other progressive movements of the nineteenth century had asserted the rights of man, the selfish claims of the individual, Fascism sought, instead, to uphold the moral integrity and higher collective purpose of the nation. And whereas liberalism saw the state simply as an institution created to protect men's rights, fascism looked on the state as an organic entity which embodied in itself all the noblest spiritual reality of the people as a whole. Fascism opposed the laissez-faire economics of the capitalism and the bourgeois ethos which went with it. But fascism equally opposed socialism, which preached class war and trade unionism and thus served only to divide the nation. Fascism could tolerate no organized sectional groups which stood outside the state, for such groups pressed the supposed interests of some against the true interests of all...
... fascism set up corporations which were designed to integrate the interests of particular trades, industries, professions and the like into the wider harmony of the state.
Unfortunately too close to the truth.
Ha, It really is satire.
I’ll be looking at your site more closely.
With that thinking ... The Brits were destined to lose to the Colonialists!
Orwellian.
Hillary's exact words in a hundred speeches. Those words by any politican scare the hell out of me!
That pesky Constitution isn't so pesky after all. We had a nice run as a country and I'm glad to have enjoyed my time here, it's just so sad to watch it disintegrate.
Mother was too old. Hillarycare and other plans will cut us out of any major surgeries we need and for all they care, we can die.
“Carl Marks”
Heheheh. You are a little trouble maker, ya know?
This one is great!
F***ing socialists.
British healthcare ping.
Is this little riff based on a particular case, or just a projection of trends?
Settle down friend.
Number One - It clearly states “United Kingdom.”
Number Two - Follow the link. “A Satirical Look at Recent News.”
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