{"id":18534,"date":"2021-10-07T01:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18534"},"modified":"2021-10-07T01:48:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:48:49","slug":"quick-takes-deadly-harvest-harvesting-organs-from-the-healthy-and-denying-it-to-the-mentally-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/07\/quick-takes-deadly-harvest-harvesting-organs-from-the-healthy-and-denying-it-to-the-mentally-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Deadly Harvest: Harvesting Organs\u2026 From The Healthy\u2026 and Denying It To The Mentally Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Harvesters of death and sorrow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_3yWbRngyJs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Euthanasia by means of ripping organs for the condemned bodies has become so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/ama-helps-normalize-organ-harvesting-after-euthanasia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">normalized<\/a>, that it\u2019ll be considered malpractice to <em>not <\/em>kill.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNow, organ harvesting after euthanasia has become so normalized within the medical intellegentsia, that an American Medical Association publication, JAMA Surgery, had a letter debate \u2014 not about the propriety of killing and harvesting, but about whether the kill should begin at home or in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTwo doctors say that \u2018organ donation after euthanasia starting at home\u2019 (ODEH) is the way to go:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<em>\u2018The patient is only sedated at home, which marks the start of euthanasia in legal terms but is medically only intended to remove consciousness while vital functions are maintained and secured. Coma induction and the start of the agonal phase [killing] subsequently take place in the intensive care unit after farewells at home and transportation [to the hospital].\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTheir debaters says, no, start the homicides in the hospital:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018<em>A guideline for ODEH should be developed, including instructions for physicians on how to act if the condition of the patient deteriorates during transport. In the ODEH case presented by Mulder and Sonneveld, noradrena line was given to maintain adequate blood pressure during transport to the hospital. This could be interpreted as violation of an important principle of organ donation after euthanasia, namely that the euthanasia and organ donationshould be at all times handled as 2 separate entities.\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Funny how a person being killed by euthanasia has gone from an option to those suffering from a painful and terminal disease to something to happen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bioethicist-let-doctors-kill-the-healthy-by-harvesting-organs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to healthy people<\/a> <em>because they are healthy!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen organ transplant medicine began, the \u2018dead donor rule\u2019 was instituted to assure a wary public that people\u2019s vital organs would only be procured after the person was dead. A corollary to that rule assures the public that people will not be killed for their body parts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe dead-donor rule has been under attack for some time within the utilitarian bioethics movement. (I am not writing about the brain-death controversy, which is a separate discussion.) Many bioethicists are now pushing to allow doctors to kill via organ harvest, sometimes called \u2018organ donation euthanasia\u2019 (ODE).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Now, a prominent bioethics journal has published a piece urging that healthy people be allowed to die by removal of vital organs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe author claims that because people can instruct life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn (LST), and can donate their organs after death, that ODE is also OK because it will result in death, too, and result in more usable organs procured and more lives saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And who benefits from this killing? Certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/end-organ-transplant-discrimination-against-people-with-developmental-disabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not the disabled<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/117\/hr1235\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAn important and bipartisan bill has been filed in Congress to end organ-transplant discrimination against people developmental disabilities. Authored by Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R., Wash.) and Katie Porter (D., Calif.), the Charlotte Wood Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act (H.R. 1235) would:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <em>A covered entity may not, solely on the basis of a qualified individual\u2019s mental or physical disability\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0 (1)deem such individual ineligible to receive an anatomical gift or organ transplant;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0 (2)deny such individual medical or related organ transplantation services, including evaluation, surgery, counseling, and postoperative treatment and care;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0 (3)refuse to refer the individual to a transplant center or other related specialist for the purpose of evaluation or receipt of an organ transplant;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0 (4)refuse to place an individual on an organ transplant waiting list, or placement of the individual at a lower-priority position on the list than the position at which the individual would have been placed if not for the disability of the individual; or<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0 (5)decline insurance coverage for such individual for any procedure associated with the receipt of an anatomical gift, including post-transplantation care if such procedure would be covered under such coverage for such individual if not for the disability of the individual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is an important issue of human exceptionalism. Each and every one of us is equal and should be treated equally. Developmental disability in and of itself should never be a bar to receiving proper medical care based on invidious notions of \u2018quality of life,\u2019 or other such excuses for abuse or medical neglect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Deadly Harvest: Harvesting Organs\u2026 From The Healthy\u2026 and Denying It To The Mentally Disabled\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Harvesters of death and sorrow.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Harvesters of death and sorrow &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/07\/quick-takes-deadly-harvest-harvesting-organs-from-the-healthy-and-denying-it-to-the-mentally-disabled\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[65,84,42,69,35],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-eu","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","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=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18535,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions\/18535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}