Kilroy has it first: Delaware to imitate British government's cannibalism

Regular readers will recall my coverage of the British government's move toward involuntary organ donation.

Now, as Kilroy's Delaware reports, HB 302 proposes to bring this ghoulish practice to Delaware.

According to HB 302, the current opt-in organ donation would be converted to an opt-out. In other words, if you don't go to the trouble to insure you're on record about NOT donating your organs, the government and hospitals will be legally entitled to harvest them upon your death without any further permission.

I am an organ donor. I support the concept.

But the process has to be completely voluntary, or the next step will inevitably be the involuntary harvesting of organs from executed criminals, followed by....

Yeah, yeah, I can hear it now--"Another Libertarian slippery slope argument"--but I can also feel my feet (not to mention my kidneys) going out from under me.

Comments

Paul Smith Jr. said…

I'm with you: I'm an organ donor too, but I don't think people should be forced to give up their organs against their will.

Our bodies are ours, not the states'.

January 24, 2008 at 9:14 AM

Anonymous said…

Sounds like we're heading toward a Larry Niven-easque organlegging and death sentence by organ bank!

January 24, 2008 at 12:01 PM

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