Posted on 09/08/2009 2:24:47 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Van Jones, one of President Barack Obama’s controversial czars, is out. Now, barely two days later, the radical views of another Obama nominee are coming to light. As reported Monday on Fox News by Brian Sullivan, host of Your World, Cass Sunstein, Obama’s choice to head up the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is advocating a plan whereby Americans would automatically have their organs harvested after death. (Sunstein has already raised eyebrows with his extremist views on regulating human behavior and his belief that animals should be able to sue humans).
Under Sunstein’s latest proposal, you could become an organ donor and not even know it.
The way organ donation works today, doctors and hospitals can only harvest your organs when you (or a spouse or relative of yours after your death) issue specific authorization (such as checking the organ donor box on your driver’s license) allowing them to do so. Sunstein wants to make it an "opt-out decision," whereby your organs would be taken after death whether it’s what you wanted or not, unless you specifically opt-out.
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Keep your paws off my giblets!
Czar flakes
I’m reminded of a short story by Philip Jose Farmer called “Caught in the Organ Draft”. In the future, to keep senior citizens alive, young people are “drafted” for organ harvest.
If it were legal to buy and sell organs, the organ shortage would go away overnight. People would have more of an incentive to donate their organs when they die to help their family financially.
Matthew 22:21
Sunstein is a piece of work. So is Holdren.
However if a new focus for concentrated exposure is to be picked, I would choose ACORN.
Complete and utter idiocy. The Whitey House is a freak show.
All your guts are belong to us.
Sunstein can pick the corn out of my Sh*%
Molon Kidney!
Go $@%^ yourself, Cass.
>>>> Cass Sunstein Believes Your Internal Organs Are Government Property
Colon Labe?
I will, however, die with a smile on my face.
/johnny
Dude! I don’t have a problem with organ donation, I just want it to be voluntary.
Anybody remember the mover “Coma”. Mandatory organ donation is a scary thought if you have seen this movie AND the Federal government is successful in taking over the healthcare industry.
All of these, however, are much easier questions to answer than setting up a government bureaucracy to decided who deserves the organs or who deserves to donate.
You could start it out very simply-- if you are a donor, your estate will get x$ toward your funeral or burial expenses if something is harvested. Even a capital criminal who cares about nobody might be persuaded to donate with the promise of a nice tombstone versus a brass marker.
Sunstein will take the rifle and the cold dead hands !
I used to think of the White House as something like a Star Wars bar scene. Now it’s looking more like an H.P. Lovecraft novel with every passing day.
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