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AMA outraged over mandatory biker organ-donor bill
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| jan 30 2003
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Posted on 02/03/2003 3:00:57 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod
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To: observer5
Hmm( visions of Madeleine Kahn ). Let me think about it!
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:29:43 PM PST
by
Arkie2
To: KneelBeforeZod
The State owns you while you are alive (income taxes, property taxes, what you can eat and drink) ... so of course the State owns you when you are dead.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:35:19 PM PST
by
ikka
To: KneelBeforeZod
The proposal, introduced in the New Mexico Legislature by state Sen. Allen Hurt (R-Waterflow), would allow the harvesting of organs from any motorcyclist who doesn't wear a helmet and is declared brain dead as a result of an accident. Hurt's bill, designated Senate Bill 239, specifically states that: "a person operating a motorcycle without a helmet and who, as the result of an accident, is pronounced brain dead pursuant to Section 12-2-4 NMSA 1978 by a licensed physician shall become an organ donor regardless of whether the person made an anatomical gift by completing the organ donor statement
"
I believe the good people of New Mexico should see to that the organs of Sen. Allen Hurt are removed and put to good use, immediately!
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:42:13 PM PST
by
TightSqueeze
(From the Department of Homeland Security, sponsors of Liberty-Lite, Less Freedom! / Red Tape!)
To: KneelBeforeZod
Damn. I'm a biker and a donor but that's cause I wanna be.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:44:16 PM PST
by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
To: KneelBeforeZod
This sonofabitch needs his organs harvested immediately in public without benefit of an anaesthetic.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:53:55 PM PST
by
RLK
To: KneelBeforeZod
Hey, why wait til they're dead??? Get 'em after 2 speeding tickets...They we can get "all" the organs...There is after all, a serious shortage of fully functional brains in the political spectrum...
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:54:05 PM PST
by
Iscool
To: KneelBeforeZod
I'm a biker and a donor both of with I choose to do.
As a matter of fact I just joined a biker club called His Laboring Few
To: per loin
Naah. The harvest would be lousy every year.
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:01:19 PM PST
by
SAJ
To: KneelBeforeZod
We call them Donorcycles in the Emergency Room.
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:07:01 PM PST
by
SC DOC
To: SC DOC
I drive an older V-Max. You'd be lucky to harvest my teeth after an accident.
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:41:55 PM PST
by
SandfleaCSC
(Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie", until you can find a large enough rock.)
To: SC DOC
We call them Donorcycles in the Emergency Room. A bit of "gallows humor," eh?
I imagine the majority of donors come to you as a result of motor-vehicle accidents; I survived a nasty one 40 years ago when the car I was in was struck by a strong crosswind (Corvair) running along the Gulf coast in Florida and I was thrown almost 100 feet into the brushy dunes.
I had a hemothorax and a pneumothorax that was treated by draining the pleural chamber, but it wasn't until 11/2 years later that the doctor performing my exit physical determined that the persistent stiffness of my left thumb was a result of the same wreck - I had a severed extensor pollex longus; now, I can flex it fine after they grafted a tendon from my left forefinger.
Amazing what a bit of stitching can accomplish.
As noble as organ donation sounds, I don't believe we are yet at the point where it is the purview of the state to designate the donor.
To: AdamSelene235
Mandatory sterilization for LIBERALS
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:55:47 PM PST
by
Mikey
To: AdamSelene235
"Bozos.....yes I am a biker and a donor. Yeah your a voluntary donor. How'd you feel if you didn't beleive in donating and you were forced to become a donor?
O'yeah I also ride and I don't believe in donating because you donate and then your organs go to the highest bidder.
What is someone doesn't believe in donating because of religeous reason's?
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:03:11 PM PST
by
Mikey
To: Tijeras_Slim
maybe teddy has had his own transplant already----what ever happened to steven speilberg's kidney failure episode?
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:04:56 PM PST
by
Taffini
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:08:05 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(OK, SOMEBODY TURN DOWN THE "CARMEN BURANDA" MUSIC!)
To: Mikey
Yeah your a voluntary donor. How'd you feel if you didn't beleive in donating and you were forced to become a donor? I would be completely opposed. Isn't that clear from my posts? I was calling the sponsor a bozo.
To: AdamSelene235
Tricky property rights question. Of course, once I'm dead, I assume my self-ownership has expired. I could see some families getting awfully touchy about it.It would make an interesting court case if one were to will their entire remains to their heirs for proper burial or disposal. Would this be like a 'death tax'?
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:12:59 PM PST
by
meyer
To: per loin
Sorry, I don't see it as a grabby attitude. Remember, under that system, you'd have full rights to decline, or to have your family decline, organ donation. There are parallel situations. Suppose you were killed in an industrial accident or a crime? You would be autopsied -- no choice in the matter at all, because society presumes the right to information in matters of justice. It's not exactly the same, I admit. But there is a terrible societal cost to letting 80,000 people a year die for lack of kidneys.
To: MoralSense
That being said, I'm getting a kidney transplant in two days. Best of luck to you, partner. Please let your fellow freepers know when you are up and about. I'll keep you in my prayers.
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:15:31 PM PST
by
meyer
To: meyer
It would make an interesting court case if one were to will their entire remains to their heirs for proper burial or disposal. Seems like that should be the default setting in absence of specific instructions.
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