Posted on 09/06/2009 11:46:30 AM PDT by John Semmens
President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Cass Sunstein, says that organs for transplant shortages could be averted by reforming the protocol that determines when organs may be harvested from donors.
Currently, persons wishing to donate organs must sign permission documents in advance. Many do not. The number of organs available for transplant would be larger if explicit permission were not required. “Just because a person is born with an organ doesn’t mean he is entitled to keep it if a greater need could be served by a different disposition of this asset,” Sunstein contended.
“Since scientific advances have enabled organs to be repositioned we should be more open minded about how we view ownership,” Sunstein urged. “I mean, humanity used to blindly accept that titles of nobility and all its privileges were owned by accident of birth. We’ve outgrown that quaint way of thinking. Maybe it’s time to ‘think-outside-the-box’ about organ ownership.”
Sunstein suggested that a “social decision framework” replace the “selfish hereditary” model. “All of society’s assets should be allocated where they are most needed for the good of the whole,” Sunstein maintained. “Reallocation of the organs of the deceased is a ‘no brainer.’ I can see no valid rationale for any impediment. Reallocation of the organs of the living, however, raises trickier issues.”
“People can live with only one kidney or one lung,” Sunstein observed. “Can we really justify anyone withholding a surplus kidney or lung when it is a matter of life and death to another?”
“Then there is the case of dire need by persons of great value to the community,” he added. “Should the life of a genius or crucial community leader be allowed to expire when replacement organs are available? Should a lesser person’s current possession of a needed organ be allowed to stand in the way? If we can ask that soldiers or police give their lives for the greater good, why can’t we ask every citizen to be ready to give theirs if they are a match and the need is urgent?”
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Just because a person is born with an organ doesn’t mean he is entitled to keep it if a greater need could be served by a different disposition of this asset...
You had me there, satire!
now turns into
“A spare kidney from every Republican, made available to every Democrat!”
“Spread the organ wealth around”
I am sorry! This line of thinking that our bodies are merely “supplies” as in a grocery store ... is beyond belief ... when it came to those with two lungs or two kidneys being required to share when necessary ... my mind blew!
This is good, but beware how much fiction becomes reality in the future.
Come on ABC, when ya gonna show John Q?
Beyond belief? Hardly. This idea has been mooted by the totalitarian Left for at least three decades. See Robert Silverberg’s old short story, ‘’Caught in the Organ Draft’’. Granted, Silverberg was partly tongue-in-cheek...but only partly.
The TRUTH is this is how this administration sees it.
If you can cavalierly abort a little person, what’s wrong with requiring you to donate one of your kidneys when someone “important” is in need of one.
THINK ABOUT IT!
This is not a joke.
I am serious.
The Organ Donation Committee has met and voted and the decision is final. You are over age 55 and we need your left kidney to save the life of a 24 year old woman who is a drug addict. The 24 year old gets the kidney. You must go back to part-time work picking tomatoes (the only job available in Zero's economy) until we need another donor organ. Your life is less valuable to the State than the younger person's . . .This is what will really happen in Obama's world.
This is getting confusing. First, the czars/advisors tell us that “unproductive” people should not be cared for. Now they tell us the government should spend extra money for involuntary organ harvesting which means additional surgery on behalf of - whom?
I have kidney disease, and it will eventually kill me. But I do not advocate this communist doctrine. I wouldn’t take a kidney from someone who did not want me to have it.
LOL...you had me going, there. I’m always getting sucked in to satires here on FR, because they are getting awfully close to the truth.
Satire can’t keep up with reality anymore.
Catch the latest from Ezekiel Emanuel in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association:
The Obligation to Participate in Biomedical Research
G. Owen Schaefer, BA; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD; Alan Wertheimer, PhD
JAMA. 2009;302(1):67-72.
The current prevailing view is that participation in biomedical research is above and beyond the call of duty. While some commentators have offered reasons against this, we propose a novel public goods argument for an obligation to participate in biomedical research. Biomedical knowledge is a public good, available to any individual even if that individual does not contribute to it. Participation in research is a critical way to support an important public good. Consequently, all have a duty to participate. The current social norm is that individuals participate only if they have a good reason to do so. The public goods argument implies that individuals should participate unless they have a good reason not to. Such a shift would be of great aid to the progress of biomedical research, eventually making society significantly healthier and longer lived.
Obama’s World is shrinking by the day ;-)
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Since Cass Sunstein is utterly insane and an assh*le to boot (there, I said 'it'), anything is possible with this sick, amoral, twisted, (blank).
After Mark Llyod - another Commie 'czar' of Barry's, Sunstein should be Glenn Beck's next target.
Probably he intends to follow the Communist Chinese model. Keep a supply of political prisoners in the gulags, and when you need an organ, just kill one of them and harvest it.
That would fit right in with Cass’s ideas.
All they would need is an Organ Czar.
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