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Cuyahoga Co. To Allow Organ Harvest Before Brain Death (Ohio)
News Net 5 (Cleveland) ^ | February 10, 2007 | not specified

Posted on 02/10/2007 12:17:23 PM PST by keats5

CLEVELAND -- Prosecutors in Ohio's most populous county said they'll no longer block the local organ bank if it wants to remove organs from people who are not yet brain dead.

Most organs are removed for donation only after the brain ceases all activity. But nationwide there has been growing use a more complicated procedure to remove the organs after the heart stops working.

Three such donations were done in Akron last year.

Cuyahoga County prosecutors for the past decade have clashed with the LifeBanc over removing organs after cardiac death. At one point they threatened homicide charges.

But Prosecutor Bill Mason has written a legal opinion endorsing a revised procedure that does not include use of a blood thinning drug that prosecutors believed would hasten death.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: braindeath; euthanasia; moralabsolutes; organ
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1 posted on 02/10/2007 12:17:25 PM PST by keats5
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To: keats5

Wow. The slippery slope continues.


2 posted on 02/10/2007 12:19:19 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: keats5

Imagine what Hill will allow if she gets in.


3 posted on 02/10/2007 12:20:20 PM PST by hershey
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To: keats5

Oh , Brave New World !
Every day we inch closer to closer to the world in
Arthur C Clarke's novel .


4 posted on 02/10/2007 12:20:25 PM PST by BurtSB (the price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
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To: keats5

Why let them go to waste if you have a quick sale for them.


5 posted on 02/10/2007 12:21:54 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: wagglebee; NYer; WKB

ping


6 posted on 02/10/2007 12:25:40 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: sgtbono2002

"We've come for your liver!"

"I'm using it!"

7 posted on 02/10/2007 12:25:50 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: keats5

I donated most of my organs -- including my liver, my heart, two kidneys, my corneas, 80% of my skin and my pancreas. Right now, I'm just a cranium attached to a CPU.


8 posted on 02/10/2007 12:26:08 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: keats5

Take apart, clean, replace the broken parts, reassemble.


9 posted on 02/10/2007 12:27:04 PM PST by GSlob
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To: keats5

Sometimes we just have to accept the wisdom of other cultures. After all, the Chinese military and police have been doing this for some time now.


10 posted on 02/10/2007 12:27:13 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: keats5

Can't take it with you...


11 posted on 02/10/2007 12:28:32 PM PST by dakine
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12 posted on 02/10/2007 12:35:16 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: 8mmMauser; T'wit; BykrBayb; Lesforlife; floriduh voter; bjs1779

Ping


13 posted on 02/10/2007 12:36:02 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: keepitreal

Tell me about it...I read that the Netherlands is considering legalizing euthanasia in cases of mental illness. God help us.


14 posted on 02/10/2007 12:37:47 PM PST by soupcon
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Can't take it with you...

Yeah, but at least wait until you are done using them. I agree with the "slippery slope" comment: what is next? Using bits of the arms and legs of parapalegics because they don't need them anymore?

15 posted on 02/10/2007 12:38:21 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: keats5; narses; P-Marlowe; EdReform; OrthodoxPresbyterian

Organ harvest prior to brain death.

That has an ominous ring.

The old song by Buck Owens:

"My heart skipped a beat....

When she walked down the street.."


Could lose you your heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc.


16 posted on 02/10/2007 12:39:35 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: keats5

They ought to just snag dem voters as they come out of the voter booths.


17 posted on 02/10/2007 12:40:15 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: keats5

I don't like the current organ donation program. They give organs to people who don't deserve them in the first place. Like the prison on death row getting a cardiac transplant, or the alcoholic with liver cirrhosis getting a new liver. All this expense on the back of the tax payer. I hate the way the human body is treated like a junked car stripping away the usable parts and discarding the shell. Now they demand the authority to take what they want before you are dead. This is completely unethical.


18 posted on 02/10/2007 12:43:03 PM PST by pterional
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To: keats5

Obviously this excludes voters in Cuyahoga County.


19 posted on 02/10/2007 12:45:38 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: BurtSB
Oh , Brave New World ! Every day we inch closer to closer to the world in Arthur C Clarke's novel .

That would be Aldous Huxley who wrote Brave New World. Clarke wrote other stuff along those lines.

20 posted on 02/10/2007 12:46:12 PM PST by madison10
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