An “bioethicist” has unveiled in an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, which comes out of Oxford, his stunningly lethal suggestion that people who want to donate organs “should be able to be killed during – or a direct result of – the organ-procurement process.”
By WND Staff
‘If people may jump on a grenade to save other soldiers, then they may sacrifice their lives by donating a heart or other vital organ’An “bioethicist” has unveiled in an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, which comes out of Oxford, his stunningly lethal suggestion that people who want to donate organs “should be able to be killed during – or a direct result of – the organ-procurement process.”
That contradicts established standards in medicine, which include the “dead donor rule,” or a requirement that organ donors must, in fact, be dead before the donation and that they cannot be killed for their organs.
A report at National Review notes that system protects the vulnerable, but is flexible enough to allow living donations of those who choose to donate one kidney, or part of a liver.
“Utilitarian bioethicists have long argued against the DDR and its corollary based on the notion that killing those who are dying or want to donate will relieve the suffering of people who want to live and need an organ,” the report said.
And it cited the comments from “Ohio bioethicist Lawrence J. Masek” who suggests killing during organ procurement isn’t a bad thing.
“First, the author pulls a typical switcheroo often seen in bioethical discourse. Here’s a relevant example: We were assured over many years that brain dead is ‘dead.’ Now, that this is accepted widely, many bioethicists are claiming that actually, it isn’t. If they are right, the DDR would preclude organ procurement from such patients. But these bioethicists claim instead that procuring organs from those diagnosed as brain dead also means that we can harvest comatose patients whose brains are clearly functioning,” the report explained.