{"id":323295,"date":"2024-12-20T06:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323295"},"modified":"2024-12-18T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:49:53","slug":"lassisted-death-suicidal-organ-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lassisted-death-suicidal-organ-harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalized assisted death is using suicidal people for organ harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) In the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, people who want euthanasia can become organ donors. (A recent report in Spain showed that 13 percent<\/a>\u00a0of those euthanized donated organs.) Let\u2019s call it \u201ckill and harvest,\u201d a policy heartily approved by our ever more crassly utilitarian medical establishment.<\/p>\n

Indeed, a recent study in\u00a0JAMA Surgery<\/em>\u00a0applauds procuring the kidneys of the euthanized because, after five years, the organs of those killed by doctors and then transplanted have worked well \u2014 even better than kidneys donated by people after brain death.\u00a0From the conclusion of the study<\/a>, which discusses donation after circulatory death from euthanasia (DCD-V):<\/p>\n

This study found that DCD-V kidney transplantation yielded a lower incidence of DGF [delayed graft function] compared with DCD-III kidney transplantation [controlled circulatory death after removing life support] and yielded long-term results similar to those of DCD-III and DBD [donation after brain death] kidney transplantation. The findings suggest that DCD-V is a safe and valuable way to increase the kidney donor pool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, DCD-V, or kill and harvest, is now its own category<\/a>\u00a0in organ-transplant medicine.<\/p>\n

This is so disheartening.<\/p>\n

READ: Women\u2019s Google Reviews bare trauma at seeing their aborted babies: \u2018You see that whole fetus\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Allowing kill and harvest represents to me a collapse in organ-transplant ethics. The dead-donor rule is supposed to prevent people from being killed for their organs. Letting suicidal people who qualify for euthanasia know that they can become organ donors comes perilously close to doing precisely that, and in some cases, donating has been a factor in choosing when to be euthanized. Among the serious problems of this approach:<\/p>\n