From the BBC:
Israel is to become the first country to give donor card carriers a legal right to priority treatment if they should require an organ transplant. The law has been changed to try to boost donation rates, as there is a shortage for organs for donation.
Seems fair enough to me.
Critics say patients should be treated on the basis of clinical need.
Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?
There was a similar moral dilemma posed on my law degree: should racist organ donors be allowed to stipulate that their organs may only be given to somebody of the same race? It struck me, yes of course they should. If you're a white guy at number ten on the list and a black donor insists that only other blacks may have his or her organs, then as long as they give it to a black person above you on the list, that still moves you up the list, doesn't it? And if the organs go to somebody below you on the list, well, what have you lost? Nothing, AFAICS, and the black person below you has gained enormously.
What's not to like?
A grim document
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t might be a bit of a bugger for those races or religions who tend to be happy to accept organs but not to donate them. Ditto blood.
Law degree? I thought you were an uber-accountant.
"might be a bit of a bugger for those races or religions who tend to be happy to accept organs but not to donate them"
So the rest of us just need to stipulate that we dont want our organs to go to a racist/religous nut.
D, Anon, either you're in or you're out, seems to me.
JH, the law degree was just for fun so that I could put LLB BA ACCA ATII on my business cards (two of each letter apart from the 'T'). It turned out to be most useful.
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