Angelicvampire, Ever heard of Eminent Domain? It's the government's right to take your property for the good of the community and it can't be stopped. I guarantee you that saving a life is 100 times more important than making a wider highway or building new City Hall.
We are evolving as a society and we are constantly re-writing our ethics. Sometimes we need to make decisions that will help a great number of people while being only a mild inconvenience to some. Is it mutilation to cut off someone's head, put it on a stake to scare away enemies? Hell yes. It is mutilation to respectfully, and carefully take something from a dead person to save lives? Hell No.
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there are probably as many people opposed to organ dontation but can't be bothered as people who are for it but can't be bothered.
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There may be as many people, I don't know, but they don't care enough to sign a paper, so why should anyone care enough about them to not save millions of lives?
There's a saying around here, if you didn't vote, don't bitch about the President. The same can be said about anyone that doesn't opt out, don't bitch when your organs get harvested.
Menoman, if you think about it religion plays such a small role in organ donation. Christian Scientists, Shinto, and Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones that don't promote organ donation. There's quite a few of them but they aren't exactly a majority.
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Cyrnel, The National Organ Transplant act made it illegal to sell human organs because..
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The law was enacted to curb trafficking of human organs and tissue. When organs are available to buy and sell, it creates an unfair market that can limit fair access to organs. Essentially, organs could only become available for the highest bidders. By keeping the act of organ donation a free one, it ensures that all people have the same chance of receiving an organ that has become available.
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