Posted on 07/03/2013 7:27:11 AM PDT by fruser1
Wales will become the first country in the UK where people will be presumed to have consented for their organs to be donated unless they opt out...
...A Bill for Wales to adopt a system of presumed consent passed its final stage in the Welsh Assembly - despite objections from religious groups on moral grounds as well as concerns about it adding greater distress to bereaved family members. AMs voted in favour of the Bill by 43 votes to eight, with two abstentions...
...Ministers insist the scheme will be implemented sensitively...
(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...
Your body is the property of the state. After all, to grow it, you and your mother had to eat a lot of local food that came out of the ground, which is also owned by the state. (sarc)
The basic premise of single-payer "health care" is that the government owns your body.
This is just sick, disgustingly sick. What about Muslims, etc, who may have certain regulations as to the proper disposal of the dead?
Monty Python predicted this in The Meaning of Life.
You kind of answered your own question. All groups with special priveliges will, no doubt, be exempted.
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