Posted on 04/25/2008 3:39:49 PM PDT by John Semmens
Despite the fact that Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys to her mother, the United Kingdom’s Human Tissue Authority declared that the disposition of the deceased woman’s organs would be determined by normal protocol.
“People may believe that their bodies and organs belong to them,” said Carl Marks, spokesman for the Human Tissue Authority. “But they’d be wrong. It is the collective well-being of the nation is the governing factor. The law has declared that bodies and organs are the public’s resources and appointed us to decide how they will be distributed.”
To emphasize this point, Marks cited the government’s plan to do away with the requirement that people must give their consent for their organs to be “harvested.” “I think this states pretty clearly who owns what and it’s not the individual,” Marks said.
“There are thousands of people on the waiting lists for transplants,” Marks continued. “Why should a person without one functioning kidney suffer when the vast majority have more than they need? Look, we drafted whole bodies to serve the nation during the War. Drafting a kidney, lung, or eye is a lesser burden on the individual than that. It’s the next logical step for the National Health Service.”
Ms. Ashworth’s mother, Rachel Leake, urgently needs a kidney and as a diabetic she could also have benefited from receiving her daughter's pancreas. Leake says her daughter “would be devastated that she was not able to help her mum.” The daughter’s organs were given to two men and a woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...
It’s based on a real case + pending legislation making organ donation the “default” option, i.e., your organs will be havested unless you went to the trouble to opt out beforehand.
...your filling and crowns and wedding rings belong to the treasury. Your hair belongs to the felt manufacturers. Your body fat goes to the soap makers. Your ashes go into fertilizer. This is just for all the peoples of the earth.
Nicht wahr?
Another brilliant write!
I got as far as clicking when I saw it was one of your postings.
Consider yourself highly commendedTM, sir.
Cheers!
The UK is a scary place.
I actually heard about this several months ago, and totally disagree with it, even though if it were enacted here in the US, I would benefit (I’m on the transplant list waiting for a kidney).
Sorry, John ... satire doesn’t work well when pasted to the business end of a sledge hammer.
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