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Taking Patients' Organs Without Consent

British Prime Minister Supports Taking Patients' Organs Without Consent

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- In what pro-life advocates see as a further scaling back of the respect government should have for patients and their right to life, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has endorsed allowing hospitals to take organs from dead patients without their consent. Bioethicists say the move further commodifies human life in the same way England has done so with attempts to allow "savior siblings" or cloning of chimeras to produce clones for cures. Brown wrote an editorial in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper saying that a facility that could process taking organs from dead patients could potentially save thousands of lives. He hopes to start such a program this year. Under his proposal, doctors would simply presume that a dead patient would have wanted their organs used to help others instead of asking a patient to sign a consent form beforehand. Prime Minister Brown said about 8,000 British residents annually are waiting for an organ donation and that about 1,000 die without receiving one. Brown indicated he would start the program next week and said the government would pressure physicians and nurses to begin identifying patients that could be potential organ donors.
Ref. https://www.lifenews.com/bio2305.html

Consent Organs Patients Taking

I don't know how the Government can just bring something in like this without consulting the nation on their thoughts and views!
I feel that it's totally disgusting, and people should stand up against these 'bully boy' tactics.

It makes you wonder how they would stand if you carried a signed statement opposing this from happening to your body.

Taking Patients' Organs Without Consent Health & Special Psychology

In the US, we have a "opt in" approach in many states. On the back of your drivers ID, there is a box to check if you would like to be a organ donor. Honestly, I would have no problems if it was the other way around "opt out" with a few exceptions. If you did not want to be a organ donor, when you got a drivers license there had to be a permanent marking by them that you agreed to and signed that pulled you out of the program. Currently, in the US, it is simply a marking that you do on the back of the ID. I would be concerned that a ink pen marking might wear off and if you did not want to be in the donor program, this misstake would be unacceptable.

As far as policing the doctors that might try to let patients die off or mistreat illnesses, I think that the lawsuits that would come the other way and insurance problems of the future would stop this practice. Also, they need to do tissue matching test for organs to be donated... This would have to be done by consent of the person donating or in the event that they died and were a willing donor.

Consent Organs Patients Taking

Beware: Killing for Organs, Taking Organs From Living People

I have been warning for several years that many in bioethics and the organ transplant community hope to legalize killing for organs, that is, taking organs from the living. The latest example comes in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics by Canadian philosophy professor (of course!) Walter Glannon.. Ref. Source 6

Consent Organs Patients Taking

If the patient is dead, then it doesn't matter. It's not as if the corpse needs the organs anymore. If the organs can be used to save lives, then go for it.

Taking Patients' Organs Without Consent

Absolutely no! Would you like if somebody came to your house, tied and gagged you and then took by force a liter of your blood because "Oh, what's the problem? It will be replaced in a couple of days!"?

A donor is somebody that donates. If something is taken from me I'm not a donor anymore: I'm the victim of a theft. How many things you have in your house that you don't use anymore? You know, many people would benefit from possessing them but they are yours by right so you don't want other people to just take them.

Moreover, that would clash with the beliefs of some religions. I'm not a religious guy but we must respect those who are.