Canada to combine euthanasia with organ harvesting?
Anyone who asks for euthanasia or assisted suicide should be ineligible to be organ donors to prevent the siren song of utilitarianism from luring people onto the rocks of hastened death.
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Articles tagged Organ Donation
Hey kids: Let’s organ-harvest the suicidal!
I can think of nothing more dangerous than for vulnerable and despairing people to believe their deaths have greater value than their lives. Well, perhaps one thing:When their own society believes the same.
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Netherlands aims to increase organ donations by euthanasia victims
Dutch specialists are preparing official guidelines for post-euthanasia organ donation, which they believe happens far too little.
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China still targeting and murdering religious minorities for illegal organ ‘donations’: Expert
David Matas revealed the ongoing persecution behind the regime's black market for human body parts.
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Nova Scotia considers presumed consent for organ donation
“Once you have presumed consent you have added pressure" to declare a patient dead and harvest his organs, an expert warns.
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‘She’s very much a living person’: Doctor champions 13-yr-old ‘brain dead’ girl on ventilator
“I feel her. I can feel my daughter. I just kind of feel like maybe she’s trapped inside her own body," her mother said.
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Underage Somalian girl trafficked to UK for organ harvesting: UK report
According to Britain’s leading anti-child trafficking organization, the problem may actually be more widespread than the report indicates.
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Wales gives final approval to dangerous ‘deemed consent’ organ donation
Ethical campaigners have expressed their sadness following final approval of a bill in Wales to create an opt-out system for organ transplantation. Members of SPUC's Wales region are saddened that the Secretary of State for Wales has decided not to use his powers to block the Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill from being sent to Her Majesty the Queen for Royal Assent (see note below). Michael Wendell Thomas, vice-chairman of SPUC's Wales region, told the media earlier today: “A collective weight of opinion has demonstrated that implementation of the Bill will be fraught with risk. This opinion has been presented by medical […]
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NY woman declared ‘brain dead’ woke up moments before organs harvested
The Health Department's investigation uncovered a series of mistakes and miscommunications that culminated in a situation that was saved only because Burns opened her eyes on the operating table.
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Wales one step closer to ‘presumed consent’ organ donation
Under the legislation, anyone over the age of 18 would be regarded as having given consent by default unless he is on record as opting out in advance.
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