Thanks for the ping, Dem Guard! (Ping to you Wagglebee - don’t know if you want to pass this on or not...) This is a truly scary proposal!
I fully support VOLUNTARY organ donation. My mother received a Kidney Transplant in 1987, and I will be eternally grateful to the family who lost their loved one, but in the process saved the lives of a total of EIGHT people... As a result my mother did not pass away when I was in my late teens, and was with us for 10 more years, until her death exactly 13 years ago today (well, I guess yesterday now... the 28th).
HOWEVER, a mandate for organ transplantation? Definitely NOT a good idea. Too much pressure on the doctors to harvest the organs and convince the families that there is “no hope” when indeed there may be. Just another “cost cutting” measure I suppose. Why should the state pay for continual medical care for those needing organs, and pay for the continual medical care of someone with brain damage, or who is in a coma?
Frankly, I’m surprised a measure like this ISN’T already contained within the Obamacare bill’s 2000 pages...
This is quite disturbing...
Thanks again for the ping to the post, Dem Guard. This is an important thing to watch — and to fight against!
My brother had a kidney transplant from a family member and survived 18 additional years to see his kids grow in to adults as well. You probably also saw the article in FR about how China is harvesting organs from convicted criminals, including Christians in the last few days. I’m not so sure I could find it again but I’ll check.
P.S. No luck finding the article I mentioned yet.