First Trial against an American Surgeon for Killing a Patient to Harvest Organs Begins

LifeSiteNews ^ | 11/6/08 | Jonquil Frankham

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The utilitarian approach to life and death that is increasingly pervading the organ donation industry is obvious from an article published this October by two Oxford scholars, which suggests that, rather than ensuring that brain death and cardiac death are indeed true death, “we could abandon the dead donor rule," as LifeSiteNews reported.

If the culture of death gets its way, we will see perfectly healthy people being killed for "parts".

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[ducdriver]

A good reason NOT to be an organ-donor, and the primary one why I’m not.

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[tutstar]

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[KittenClaws]

I am incredibly suprised at this turn of events. /s

[ducdriver]

And it will not be a surprise to learn that this practice is more widespread than we now know.

[OneWingedShark]

>A good reason NOT to be an organ-donor, and the primary one why I’m not.

You’re right. I _AM_ an organ donor, because I don’t think that I’ll be needing any of them after I’m dead; hearing something like this raises second-thoughts. The primary part of my proposition is AFTER I’m dead.

[freekitty]

That is sick. I wonder if the voters in Oregon and Washington know this.

[I_Like_Spam]

I wouldn’t be an organ donor, and this is the reason why.

What this doctor did was murder , there really isn’t any difference between hastening someone’s death by the administration of drugs or by plugging him full of lead.

There is a lot of social utility in making an example of this physician to deter other physicians from similar behavior.

[Centurion2000]

This is why I’m not an organ donor.

[Slump Tester]

Hootan Roozrokh? Our diversity is our strength!

Who would go to a muslim doctor in the first place? He probably still does blood letting and uses leeches.

[elk]

I wouldn’t WANT an organ if it came at the expense of someone’s life.

[LouAvul]

I don't understand the outrage. So what?

We murder in the most horrendous fashions possible 1.5 million babies every year. And unlike the above patient, we certainly don't give them any painkillers.

With the legions of slaughtered innocents surrounding the throne of God, I'm amazed he's allowed this earth to exist.

Lest some Freeper chastize me for being insensitive to Navarro, I think we need to be filled with outrage at it all.

Liberalism needs to be put to sleep like the dog it is.

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[debboo]

I wouldn’t put anything past anyone in SanFransicko. They all deserve each other and whatever happens to them.

[ViLaLuz]

This is already happening often, right under our noses.

[ArchAngel1983]

From a previous post...

I implore anyone foolish enough to have checked the little ‘organ donor’ box on their divers license to get a new one post haste (without the check, of course). There’s too much $ to be made in the used parts business to trust anybody anymore.

[clee1]

As an ICU nurse, I am advising everyone to NOT sign an organ donor card!

Leave that decision to your family for AFTER your death.

The temptation is too great for some transplant surgeons to TAKE your organs prematurely otherwise.

[Salvation]

Agree with you!