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Fri 15 Aug, 2008 01:04 am
I hate the new forum. I think I shall take my act on the road shortly.
Anyway, this guy in Denver is doing child-to-child-organ-transplants in some unorthodox manner, raising various ethical issues about how long the donor kid should be dead, pre-necrotic conditions, blah, blah blah.
I'd like to preface by saying I'm pro stems-cell, to the extent of thinking women should be able to sell their fetii for cash. And I'm pro abortion, in countries where ambient fascism levels allow, I think first-conceptions before age 28 should undergo compulsory-termination.
However, once birth occurs, and the neonate draws or is mechanically compelled to draw breath and does so, I don't see how they could consider him/her to be a candidate for organ-donation prior to the established age-of-consent. I mean, if junior can't work in pornos no matter what mom & pop say, why should he/she be able to be chopped up for parts? The body could instead be chryonically preserved for future reanimation - impractical and speculative though the option is, it exists therefor the decision exists - if circumstance is not to be allowed to decide the child's fate, why should sentiment?
hanno wrote:The body could instead be chryonically preserved for future reanimation
Lots of ethical issues going on here, and, I admit I hadn't considered consent. Still, how is a person recently thawed more able to grant consent? It would probably be in exactly the same condition as before - if not worse.
@hanno,
duh stem cells are greeat!! in the future imagine where u can live indefinitel because u can regrow anything u need, organs, cells, bloods, etc.,...
abortion same thing, life isnt sacred, honestly. its just a complex computational organ that brings the gift of concoiousness...
I'm not sure what the Denver doctor is doing but I do know that in the case of all (except maybe corneas) that the body is kept "alive" artificially until the organs can be matched, the intended recipient notified and prepared for surgery and only then are the organs harvested.
I can't imagine why it would be any different for an infant than for anyone else.
It's tragic, certainly, but as a parent I do know that if my child had no possibility of living that I would prefer that his/her organs be given to another child so that child could have life than to have his/her body frozen.
Am I missing something in this story?
@hanno,
hanno wrote:I hate the new forum. I think I shall take my act on the road shortly.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass...