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The treatment of pregnant women primarily as vessels for a fetus, and the stripping of otherwise applicable rights and protections from women because of their pregnant status, underlies the entire ideology of the anti-abortion movement.
As many others have pointed out, there are no other circumstances under which we force people to donate use of their organs to another, no matter how dire the need; even corpses need to have consented while alive before their organs can go to anyone else.
Everyone says were overreacting for imagining the Handmaid's Tale future, but step by step we are on that road....
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Slight bit of nuance to clarify your slight bit of nuance to clarify here. The original comment said "consented while alive before their organs can go to anyone else". Technically "anyone" else could be an entity in medical science. :)
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lol i was being facetious. i honestly wasnt aware of the specific donation criteria for organ transplants. makes sense that the standards would be high.
although i wonder how scientific it is. i would assume that weve progressed enough scientifically that organs can independently be kept alive and verified for proper function to expand availability.
however, i just wondered if it would create a circumstance that is conducive to unethical/immoral behavior such as shmurder for the sake of getting a kid an organ on a waitlist. but then again, if anything, it would make it less conducive because of the higher availability.
Donations to science often fall under the unethical/immoral department because they send back unused body parts to your next of kin.
Could you elaborate on that? I don't understand how it immoral or unethical.
You don't understand how a relative donating their corpse to science only to be surprised a year later with a package of their unused organs in the mail might be immoral or unethical?
They are absolutely not sending surprise human remains in the mail.
Well, it shouldn't be a surprise. But if I donate my body to science, I would like whatever is unused to be buried with my family and not just thrown away. I think it's common practice.
If I donate my body to science, I expect them to dispose of whatever is left over. Not return it to whomever. That defeats the purpose of donation entirely.
When you donate to Goodwill do they give you back what they don't want?
You are purposefully distorting this argument. Goodwill and human remains are nowhere comparable.