The Card to Protect You from “Presumed Consent” Organ Harvesting
As the push for organ harvesting gets increasingly aggressive, and more and more cases of abuse by transplant teams surface, one pro-life leader has developed a card to ensure doctors respect one’s wish to live a natural lifespan.
“The card documents that they want to live as long as God gives them,” said Dr. Paul Byrne of the Life Guardian Foundation, who is a pioneer in the field of neonatology and a leading opponent of the notion of “brain death,” which is often used as the point where doctors can begin harvesting organs from dying patients.
Dr. Byrne argues that brain death is not in fact real death, but rather a set of criteria that were developed in order to be able to harvest healthy organs, including vital organs, thereby causing the patient’s true death.
“The fact of the matter is all organs that are transplanted are healthy organs and they always come from a living person,” he...
Galatians 4:15 What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
My husband and I are not personally organ donors. Nor did I take blood, when it was advised I get blood transfusions, after each of my three latest operations.
If I am an organ donor, I don't trust that they will be as eager to save my life. These are my own thoughts on the matter: I do not condemn anyone who would donate or receive organs. It is a sensitive matter.
"Dr. Byrne argues that brain death is not in fact real death, but rather a set of criteria that were developed in order to be able to harvest healthy organs, including vital organs, thereby causing the patient’s true death."
Who said Dr. Frankenstein was dead?
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." Mary Shelley
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