You might recall the flap over Vice President Dick Cheney when he received someone's heart and the argument was who died in his place? Did Cheney pull strings? Are we supporting a black market in places like China just as we support poppy growth in Afghanistan with our demand for organs and heroin? If there are sufficient organs to go around, lives are saved and a black market involving forced extraction of organs might be reduced in places like China.
The practice is the law now in Austria and it seems to be working just fine. The proposed law in Connecticut permits the individual to opt out of the program at will. I have some concern that the privacy of the individual will not be respected given the leaks we have seen from gun registries etc. and the leaks we have seen of government records concerning individuals in the Trump administration.
I think our criticism should be less reflexively anti-Kennedy, however deserved even unto the 10th generation, and more thoughtful.
