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organ donation

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Organ transplantation medical professional in a rush
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 12, 2024
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Bioethics, Health Care
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A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

Wesley J. Smith
April 12, 2024
Bioethics, Health Care
It is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys. Read More ›
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An empty hospital bed with dying flowers.
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 21, 2024
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Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician
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Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician
Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›
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Busy surgeons over the operating table
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 17, 2022
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Euthanasia
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Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs

Wesley J. Smith
October 17, 2022
Euthanasia
Some lines should never be crossed. Allowing doctors to kill patients during organ harvesting wouldn’t only be an acute threat to the sanctity of life, but I can think of no better way to sow mistrust in our health care system generally—and the lifesaving field of organ transplant medicine specifically. Read More ›
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One cute pig curious on the camera
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 10, 2022
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COVID-19
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We Should Cheer the Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant

Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2022
COVID-19
This is an amazing potential advance in organ transplant medicine. A pig’s heart — genetically modified to not be rejected as readily — has been transplanted into a dying human patient. Read More ›
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CRISPR-CAS9 gene editing complex from Streptococcus pyogenes.
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 21, 2021
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Patient Care
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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 ›
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A concept based on the Canadian healthcare system.
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 20, 2021
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Human Rights
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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 ›
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Netherlands healthcare concept. Medical stethoscope with country flag
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 26, 2021
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Euthanasia
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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 ›
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desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 14, 2020
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Patient Care
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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 ›
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abstract illegal organ transplantation. A human heart in the hand of a surgeon woman. International crime. Assassins in white coats. Death and money. Heart transplant isolated on black background
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 13, 2020
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Patient Care
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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 ›

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