Step 2: Presume organ donation
Step 3: Send undesirables for euthanasia and organ harvesting
Posted on 07/08/2023 9:48:38 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Following the lead of the province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick became the second jurisdiction in Canada to adopt a policy of “presumed consent” for organ and tissue donation. Instead of willingly opting in to be an organ donor, residents 19 years and older, with limited exceptions, will be opted in by default.
While many see this as a solution to the perpetual demand for transplant organs, laws like these treat the ethics of organ donation as a settled matter while treating humans and their bodies as means to other ends. Even more, considering Canada’s policy of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), this step will corrode the already thin ideas of “autonomy” and “consent” while incentivizing a utilitarian view of human nature.
For context, Canada has already experienced a dramatic expansion of MAID toward not only those facing a terminal medical diagnosis but also for those suffering from mental illness deemed “grievous and irremediable” (those who suffer solely from mental illness will not be eligible until 2024). In 2021, assisted deaths rose by 35%, reaching over 10,000, or 3% of all deaths in the country. Opponents of MAID, including virtually every disability rights group in Canada, continued to warn that a so-called “right” to die will inevitably devolve into a duty to die. People are seen, both by themselves and by others, as burdens using precious resources better spent on those with better prospects for a “better” life.
These warnings were, to put it mildly, ignored. As numbers climb, so do stories of pressure and coercion. Consider the Canadian veteran suffering from PTSD who was offered MAID instead of treatment last year.
The presumed consent of the New Brunswick law adds a perverse incentive: the immense value of organs for transplant. The mismatch between supply and demand, not to mention what balancing that mismatch would mean, has always dominated the ethical conversation about organ donation. Currently, over 4,300 Canadians are waiting for an organ transplant, and as a government website states, hundreds “will die waiting. …”
Canada’s end-of-life policies already incentivize death. If donors request death, not only is the difficulty of obtaining consent more easily settled, so is the issue of preserving organs. Law professor F.H. Buckley explained in the Wall Street Journal,
Last year … two Canadian medical researchers and a Harvard bioethicist argued that [waiting until the patient is declared dead] could reduce the quality of donated organs. A superior model, they suggest, could be to kill the patient by removing his organs. After all, the best organs come from live people, like those who donate one of their kidneys. …
[B]y linking assisted suicide and organ harvesting, it ratifies the premise that euthanasia can help create a more efficient organ supply chain. … Where euthanasia is legal, the temptation to link the time of death and the demand for organs may similarly become too strong to resist. On a slow day there’s no hurry, but when a patient [who] is waiting for a heart is in the next hospital room, you’d expect greater pressure to euthanize a patient. …
Medical professionals should not be given the incentive to see their patients as sacks of valuable organs rather than as human beings.
The farther the medical world moves from its founding principle of “Do no harm,” the more harm is done. Take for instance China, where one top transplant doctor admitted that “effectively 95% of all organ transplants were from prisoners.” As unthinkable as it sounds, experts warned that these prisoners were likely executed by the means of “organ removal.”
Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement and vocal opponent of euthanasia, was deeply influenced by Christianity. She once wrote, “The question of how one feels about so-called ‘rational suicide’ is, I believe, ultimately governed by the question of how much faith one has in human nature.” Powerful market incentives will only worsen an already epidemic disregard for human life. For Canadians, “presumed consent” is another stage in the downward spiral of a culture of death. If it continues to spread, there will be no opting out.
This Breakpoint was co-authored by Kasey Leander. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to breakpoint.org.
Trudeau like Obama is a very fan of the Chinese Communist Party’s system
Dr MENGELE —revisited
Step 1: Normalize euthanasia
Step 2: Presume organ donation
Step 3: Send undesirables for euthanasia and organ harvesting
The State claiming bodily 'eminent domain' (?)
as the State says that they own your body ?
How Chinese Communist they have become lately !
But that's a good thing now, right, so....
I think it’s time for the USA and Canada to go full Pinochet!
Gee Monty Python’s “you signed the organ donor card” was not too far off….. and
How much help did the chicoms give trudeau in implementing this policy?
The irony is that since being an “organ donor” makes you more likely to be terminated at the will of the state for your organs...
Most folks will opt out of being an organ donor if they understand the situation.
Canada’s becoming a hellhole country... It seems so wrong - like it wasn’t suppose to be that way.
Step 1: Normalize euthanasia
Step 2: Presume organ donation
Step 3: Send undesirables for euthanasia and organ harvesting
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big money in organ harvesting.
had no idea that there was such a high demand for fresh organs.
The Son of Fidel is killing more innocent Canadians while cutting Canada’s Medical expenses at the same time.
Bidentheender will bring this medical miracle to America in his second term.
Note that there is no presumption that you are dead before they exercise their presumptive right to your organs.
Yikes
At this juncture, there’s no reason why they cannot auction off yutes from a pen in front of a packed stand of bidders.
Canada’s becoming a hellhole country..
Learn from what happened to us. It has been so quick, that many of us can’t believe this is the same country we grew up in.
For example, I was in grade school in the early 1970’s, and we still had school prayer.
Now look at it...
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