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- From: bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray)
- Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: interesting [and scary] blurb...
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 04:32:39 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Reply-To: bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray)
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- In a previous article, lvc@cbnews.cb.att.com (Larry Cipriani) says:
-
- >In article <1haqgpINNggm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray) writes:
- >>> Want to make this argument more obscure? Most motorcyclists
- >>>I know of are organ donors, and most wear helmets. However, any
- >>>law that says they must wear a helmet is considered an infringement
- >>>of personal rights. Many have begun carrying cards saying that their
- >>>organs may not be used in any state that has a mandatory helmet law.
- >>>The AMedicalA, and a few others, went apeshit. Too bad.
- >>>
- >>I'm sure this gives the holders of these donor cards a nice warm feeling, but
- >>think of the actual consequences. Do you actually hurt the people you want to
- >>hurt...i.e. the legislators who passed the law you object to? No. You hurt
- >>some individual, whom you will never know, who will die because your organs
- >>were unavailable, since you got killed in a biking accident in a state with
- >>laws that offend your ethical sensibilities. Doesn't make sense to me.
- >
- >It makes sense by putting some pressure on people in states with mandatory
- >helmet laws to work towards eliminating those laws. I would add to a
- >donor card [if I didn't have other plans for my corpse] that the organs
- >could not be implanted in someone who lived in a state with restrictive
- >gun laws. I know one person who has "... only to be used for any child
- >or any libertarian"
- >--
- >Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
- >
- However, this would be illegal, since federal law prohibits any consideration
- other than medical need in deciding which patient receives a given organ. It
- is also unenforceable, since the recipient's identity is protected by the
- privacy laws (also federal).
-
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- The opinions expressed by the author are insightful, intelligent and very
- carefully thought out. It is therefore unlikely that they are shared by the
- University of Iowa or Case Western Reserve University.
-