Euthanasia and Euphemisms
A recent article in a Dutch newspaper exclaimed: “Euthanasia Patient Saves Five Lives with Organ...
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This Week in Bioethics
1. Opponents of PAS in CA Fail to Gain Enough Signatures for Referendum Earlier this week the...
Read MoreIran’s Out of Control Kidney Bazaar
Iran is the only country in the world that legally permits the purchase of human organs. (Yes, I...
Read MoreGovernment Should Not Induce Kidney Supplying
Psychiatrist and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow, Sally Satel, received a donated kidney from the writer Virginia Postrel, saving her life. Good for Postrel. Happy for Satel. But Satel wants kidney providing to...
Read MoreWe Should Follow Iran’s Kidney Selling OK?
There is growing pressure among the utilitarian bioethics crowd to permit the poor to sell their kidneys–and there is already a thriving biological colonialism in kidney selling that prays on the world’s most destitute....
Read MoreMoving Organ Donors Instead of Organs
I think this is a very good idea. Rather than procure organs in disparate hospitals, in the Midwest, they are now moving donors to a centralized location. From the AP story: For decades, surgeons have traveled to far-off...
Read MoreOrgan Transplant Disability Rights Victory
I wrote back in April that a core ethical rule in organ transplant medicine was threatened with a dangerous turn that would allow doctors to bring up donation to the families of disabled patients before a decision to cease life...
Read MoreWrong to Take Organs from Condemned Man
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I think it is wrong to allow a condemned man to donate non vital organs before executing him. From the Reuters story: Ohio Governor John Kasich on Wednesday stayed the execution of...
Read MorePoor People Only Need One Kidney
The drive to turn living human bodies of the poor and destitute into natural resources for the well off continues. Now, the oh-so-liberal Canadian Broadcasting Corporation boosts organ buying, based on advocacy from the heart of...
Read MoreLess Brain Deaths Tempt Organ Ethics Meltdown
I blame my pal Ralph Nader and the law of unintended consequences: Improved safety — such as seat belt and helmet laws — resulted in far fewer catastrophic brain injuries. Great news! But that has meant fewer people...
Read MoreLegalize Murder for Organs?
The attacks on the dead donor rule — which requires death as a precondition of donating vital organs — are continuing in the world’s most prestigious medical and bioethical journals. Take the New England...
Read MoreDisabled Woman Wants Suicide/Organ Donation
I have been warning against coupling assisted suicide with organ harvesting since 1993, when I wrote my first anti-assisted suicide column in Newsweek. From, “The Whispers of Strangers:” Life is action and reaction,...
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