Tag: organ donation

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Patient Care}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Patient Care}

We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2021
Human Rights}

Time to Outlaw ‘Transplant Tourism’

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2021
Human Rights}

The black market in human organs for transplantation is one of the worst ongoing human rights abuses in the world today. But here’s the problem: Many decry organ trafficking, but few do anything about it. Read More ›

A concept based on the Canadian healthcare system.

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 20, 2021
Human Rights}

Canada on Road to Outlaw ‘Organ Tourism’

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 20, 2021
Human Rights}

Good for Canada — a sentiment I haven’t been able to make very often lately. But a Senate committee has unanimously passed a bill that would outlaw Canadians from entering the black market for organs overseas, an exploitive phenomenon sometimes called “organ tourism.” Read More ›

Netherlands healthcare concept. Medical stethoscope with country flag

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2021
Euthanasia}

Dutch MD Describes Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2021
Euthanasia}

Euthanasia homicide is conjoined with organ harvesting in at least three countries — Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In the latter two, the donors who are killed are sometimes mentally ill, not physically sick. Or, they might be disabled. Read More ›

desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2020
Patient Care}

Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2020
Patient Care}

A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

Modern day slavery, illegal trade of human organs on the black market and forced organ harvesting of death row inmates concept theme with a liver, heart and kidney with price tags and a barcode

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2020
Patient Care}

More Evidence of ‘Organs on Demand’ System in China

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2020
Patient Care}

China has been repeatedly and credibly accused of organ harvesting the Falun Gong and other political prisoners, usually for the black market, in which rich foreigners needing a transplant travel there and buy their lives at the cost of ending someone else’s. It is an evil trade, and one for which China should be shunned by the international community. Now, we have even more evidence that China has the ability to obtain organs on demand. A Chinese woman living in Japan was flown there for a heart transplant and was able to have four made available for transplant in ten days. From the Epoch Times story: “The question is: who is the source for these 4 hearts,” said Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of the medical Read More ›

Medical syringe in the doctor's hands on the patient's in room h

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020
Euthanasia}

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020
Euthanasia}

Death is in the air. No, I am not referring to the coronavirus. The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide as acceptable responses to human suffering. Let’s call it the “Jack Kevorkian Plague,” after the late pathologist who in the 1990s became world-famous by assisting the suicides of some 130 people. Before Kevorkian, the euthanasia movement was mostly a fringe phenomenon. After Kevorkian, although certainly not because of him alone, assisted suicide had been made legal in Oregon, and large swaths of the American public accepted the practice. Now, a mere 20 years later, lethal-injection euthanasia is legal and popular in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Doctor-assisted suicide Read More ›