Posted on 04/27/2010 7:00:17 PM PDT by mainsail that
By MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A New York assemblyman whose daughter is alive because of two kidney transplants wants his state to become the first in the nation to pass laws that would presume people want to donate their organs unless they specifically say otherwise.
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky believes the "presumed consent" measures would help combat a rising demand for healthy organs by patients forced to wait a year or more for transplants. Twenty-four European countries already have such laws in place, he said.
If he succeeds, distraught families would no longer be able to override their loved ones' decisions to donate upon their death. And eventually, hospitals would be able to assume the deceased consented to have his or her organs harvested, unless the person refused in writing.
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Facists!!
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wait, what are they going to tell all those people on the waiting lists when the money runs dry... their excuse about not having enough organs will be lost.
...this is ghoulish.
‘He looks dead enough, how are his kidneys?’
Did you ever think we’d see a Monty Python sketch come true in America?
another form of forced charity.
He’ll want prisoner/forced donations next.
Some months back, I made a tongue-in-cheek comment about Obama’s CDC director (Thomas Frieden, a true nanny stater) and the possibility of mandatory organ donation for “the common good.”
That someone is proposing something very close to that, and that it already exists as law in much of Europe, chills me to my bones (which you may not have without my consent, thank you very much).
BTW, I am registered as an organ donor on my license. I’m all for people making use of my spare parts when I’m dead. I just don’t want some jackboot politician making the choice for me.
Not just us, but the world needs some simple and non-toxic substance that can be consumed once, that will forever make a person’s internal organs unacceptable for transplant, without expensive tests to prove that it is acceptable.
In China, right now, religious dissidents are being murdered for their organs by the government, so while it might not prevent their murder, it would provide less financial incentive to murder. At least they would not profit from the murder.
There are many possible pathogens that could live in our bodies in harmless symbiosis, but would rule out any possibility of transfer because they could not be distinguished from their pathological relatives. But an expert must discover just the right one, that can be easily cultivated and spread around between potential organ harvest targets.
Yikes! Our bodies are “presumed” to belong to the state? Unless you’re a woman who wants an abortion, then the “choice” is entirely yours.
New angle for the death panels.
Oh how these politicians can twist reality. And where is the proof in writing to be found?
And obamacare determines when you are brain dead.
We should vote against it, it increases medical costs :)
they can have my kidneys when they pry them from my cold dead...
On his website, one of the topics for his video blog: “Returning Control to the People of NY”. Have some irony. It’s good for your blood.
To hell with that.If a person refuses to donate his organs so be it.Where the hell does the state get the idea they can steal your organs without your consent.
I myself have on my drivers license that I am An Organ donor,but that was my decision.I just worry how many people will be pronounced dead prematurely so the surgeons could gather the organs as needed.
Just another nut who believes we and everything we have belong to the government...
And of course, if the written refusal was *lost*, then they'd just go ahead and do it any way.
I guess NYers are just another commodity for the politicians.
Watch, next they’ll add a mandatory tax on the organs as well.
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