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Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain
National Review ^ | February 3, 2026 11:20 AM | By Wesley J. Smith

Posted on 02/03/2026 8:46:19 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn in Spain, where a woman was euthanized and then had part of her face transplanted....

Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has performed the world’s first face transplant with a donor who passed away from euthanasia.

Around 100 medical professionals took part in the partial face transplant, a highly complex operation using neurovascular microsurgery techniques that lasted about 24 hours.

In presenting the milestone procedure, the healthcare director, Maria José Abadías, highlighted the “extraordinary generosity of the donor,” ​the “collective effort” behind the operation and the “pride” of all workers who took part in it.

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There were apparently no efforts at suicide prevention to keep the patient in life. From what the story discloses, the primary focus of the medical team became the 3-D planning and preparation for the surgery after the killing. (The story does not disclose her ailment.) I see this as a violation of the dead donor rule because the patient was killed at a particular time and in a specific way to further the donation, not to benefit her condition.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; European Union; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agiftfromearth; euthanasia; organharvesting; spain; transplant
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1 posted on 02/03/2026 8:46:19 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“Face Off.” Not just a movie.

There’s something about the new face. A deadeye stare, perhaps.


2 posted on 02/03/2026 8:47:50 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I think I will have Viking’s funeral when I die.


3 posted on 02/03/2026 8:48:20 AM PST by Jonty30 (Why did a being, who claimed to be an angel, choke Muhammad? Because everybody wanted to.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

4 posted on 02/03/2026 8:49:38 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“extraordinary generosity of the donor,” ​

She was dead!


5 posted on 02/03/2026 8:51:10 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Jonty30

If it weren’t for the life insurance and the inheritance, I would want to be stuffed into a Hefty construction bag and dropped in the garbage can.

After I die sometime in the future, of course. Not like right now or anything.


6 posted on 02/03/2026 8:51:36 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I think I read about this once, was it Edgar Allen Poe or H.P. Lovecraft? hmmm.


7 posted on 02/03/2026 8:53:57 AM PST by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Pay yo’ bills and you won’t have to worry about that fate while you’re living.

No mobster crematorium for you.

I understand that some of their victims were quite awake and well aware of their last few minutes of life.


8 posted on 02/03/2026 8:55:43 AM PST by Jonty30 (Why did a being, who claimed to be an angel, choke Muhammad? Because everybody wanted to.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Recently I’ve noticed stories about medical advances coming out of Spain.

Spain was never a medical and technological powerhouse. I wonder what changed.


9 posted on 02/03/2026 8:57:20 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Give it a week and we’ll hear about her genitalia being “donated” to some tranny.


10 posted on 02/03/2026 9:00:40 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
who passed away from euthanasia

That's a fancy way of saying "who was killed" ...

11 posted on 02/03/2026 9:03:43 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: aquila48

Removal of ethical constraints, same reason why a lot of medical advancements came out of Germany in the 40s.


12 posted on 02/03/2026 9:17:10 AM PST by WarlordBK
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This is not the first face transplant. Several years ago a Wyoming man received the face of a man that had died. It was a full face transplant as the recipient had attempted suicide by trying blowing his head off but failed and basically shot his face off. He wore a plastic mask until such time as a face transplant was possible. Can’t remember the man’s name.


13 posted on 02/03/2026 9:34:18 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Well damn, that’s funny. Because although I hadn’t thought of it until now you can bet the trannies have. And their co-conspirators in the medical industry are itching for a chance to get out their scalpels


14 posted on 02/03/2026 10:24:12 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Weird.

My dad told me to roll him in a rug and chuck him out on the back 40.

I would like to be freeze dried in a suit of armor then sealed in a cave full of melee weapons on a throne.

To each his own I suppose.


15 posted on 02/03/2026 10:32:20 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: NorthMountain

YES


16 posted on 02/03/2026 10:37:54 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

So euthanasia is now being used to harvest organs for transplants. Great. As the story points out, we now are at the point where the death is being managed and timed to create maximum benefit for the harvesting and transplant operation. How soon before we start doing what China does and start killing prisoners to harvest their organs?


17 posted on 02/03/2026 10:38:19 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Demonic


18 posted on 02/03/2026 10:58:16 AM PST by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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