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Reduce Sentence For Donating Organs?
That’s what some proposed legislation in South Carolina is suggesting.
Sean Aqui talks about the slippery slope here.
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8 Responses to “Reduce Sentence For Donating Organs?”
Oh nice, organ farm… er… I mean prisons. If it’s good enough for China I guess.
Well at nleast they want to harvest the organs with the inmates approval. Maybe they will even pay the donor $0.60 per organ, like the replacement migrant workers in Colorado. Maybe the prisoners in Gitmo can be put to use…
Hmmmm… Recycling someone after a death sentence.
Might put a faster end to the practice of lethal injection than the current cruel-and-unusual-punishment outcry. Might even bring back the firing squad, but only with headshots so as not to damage valuable organs.
I like it!
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Off C – Maybe you should read the post, they’re talking about knocking off time from the living for donating living organs. This has nothing to do with death penalty volenters.
Wow. There’s something very Old Testament about this. The ‘pound of flesh,’ and so on.
NO.
It’s poor social engineering behind bars and I doubt it will redeem anyone.
The organ shortage, particularly for blacks (which isn’t helped well by revising UNOS waiting-list protocols to give minorities “race-conscious points” to speed them to their new organ ahead of whites, as some academic liberalism-infection activists would advocate) is due to a lack of donations which prisoners cannot solve on their own. The real solution in the USA is presumed consent. (The worthless scammers in academia who argue presumed consent is impossible are of course dishonest at their core. The term or phrase is self-explanatory and is no different with organs than with roadway sobriety testing.)
The preceding paragraph strays from the central issue here, which involves exploiting the prison population, and for that I apologize, but it’s important for those who are involved in any way with organ donation and the related ethical issues.
Exploiting prisoners is wrong. Why stop there? Why not extend that to all offenders, not only notorious white-collar criminals at Club Fed or under “house arrest” or in “community service” but even extending down to parking tickets or jaywalking fines? Donate an organ and reduce the penalty! It’s the same principle. That is, unless you are trying specifically to exploit prisoners because they’re in a weak position.
That’s what Kevorkian must have known when he advocated medical experiments on condemned prisoners or others who consent, under anesthesia ending with a fatal injection.
“Voluntary organ and tissue donations could shave as much as 180 days off of a jail term”
Six months? That’s all?
On the other hand, how many prisoners in South Carolina are in one- or two-year sentences for Drug War crimes?