Very bad precedent.
I have never heard from a knowledgeable source anything about nepotism, favoritism, cronyism, or the sort in the US organ transplant bureaucracy. I have spent several years working in the health benefits field, have gone through the process from the insurer’s side of the table, and while I have seen a woman die for not getting a suitable transplant in time, I have never seen a person bumped up the list by a judicial decree.
Why would freepers applaud this new cronyist system where apparently any two bit judge can decide life or death decisions instead of the medical professionals who have spent their careers building up the most sustainable organ transplant system in human history?
This girl’s family have taken a utilitarian approach to save their daughter, t is the political operators and media operators who have exploited this family for sensationalist demagoguery, and freepers and just about everyone I have talked to this about, have been suckered into this hook, line and sinker.
People die. Children die. Safer motor vehicles and less motor vehicle fatalities have led to lower numbers of donors, state level politicians have refused recommendations to create opt out system for organ donation on driver’s licenses have further reduced available organs.
Creating a cronyist system through judicial decree will lead to utilitarian legal precedents that will abut utilitarian biol-totalitarian arguments for universal forced organ donation, against personal, family, and religious objections.
The arguments being made on FoxNews are going to force life or death decisions out of a multigenerational established medical community, erasing the institutional memory of the doctors and administrators who spend their lives working on this, and into the hands of namely politically appointed bureaucrats, the exact opposite of what I hope everyone on FR would want.
No one said she was bumped to the top. She was added to the adult list opening more options.