{"id":15001,"date":"2018-10-09T00:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2018-10-09T00:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:17:55","slug":"normalizing-organ-harvesting-as-a-form-of-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/10\/09\/normalizing-organ-harvesting-as-a-form-of-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Normalizing Organ Harvesting as a Form of Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;More and more &#8220;doctors&#8221; are openly advocating harvesting organs from still living donors as a form of euthanasia. This penchant for a medical version of Aztec cosplay is seen both in <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/04\/04\/the-future-of-euthanasia-harvesting-organs-from-live-donors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/01\/25\/in-canada-free-healthcare-may-soon-mean-morally-acceptable-organ-harvesting-from-living-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North America<\/a>. Yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepostmillennial.com\/dr-savage-medicine-journal-recommends-that-doctors-remove-organs-from-still-breathing-euthanasia-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call for death<\/a> by donation has crept up, this time in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1804276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Canadians Ian Ball and Robert Sibbald from Western University, along with Robert Truog from Harvard, recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine calling for organ donation from euthanasia victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They went so far as suggesting pulling the organs from the still-alive &#8216;donor&#8217; such that removing the organs would cause the donor\u2019s euthanasia itself. The fresher the better. The transplant surgeons thus become both the one who sustaines life for one, and the dealer of death for the other. All it takes, according to the authors, is a few simple tweaks to legislation\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11447\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Aztec-Sacrifice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Aztec-Sacrifice.jpg 593w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Aztec-Sacrifice-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All this just in time for legislative revisions!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;More changes are expected in December from the Council of Canadian Academies\u2019 report to the Minister of Health, which will address assisted suicide for the mentally ill, mature minors and use of advanced directives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gideon J. Tucker was right when he said &#8220;No man&#8217;s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Normalizing Organ Harvesting as a Form of Euthanasia\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"More and more 'doctors' are openly advocating harvesting organs from still living donors as a form of euthanasia.  This penchant for a medical version of Aztec cosplay is seen both in Europe and in North America.  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Yet another call for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/10\/09\/normalizing-organ-harvesting-as-a-form-of-euthanasia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[65,24,35],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15002,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}