Watch Out For This
Read the important article below. Organs to be taken without consent.
their right to choose should read this article below. Just because it is in England, don't think that such an idea can't make its way to our country. For those wanting government to take care of your health care, just remember that in England government takes care of health care.
In one of my articles when I ruled Mitt Romney out because of his statement that the Pharmaceutical Companies weren't the bad guys, there was a reason for that. There is a herd mentality that many would champion. It is easier to gain and keep power and control if the people you are trying to control has a herd mentality that buys into whatever you force in power tells them.
I will deal more later about the evils of the Big Pharma Mama Pharmaceuticals. But read this article. Anyone that doesn't want to be an organ donor this should scare them to death. Even the ones that want to be organ donors should be scared with this. What happens if there is something you don't want to take part in and Big Papa Gov decides you should anyway.
Our freedom and rights in this country is slowly being taken away from us. Why slowly? Because if they attempted to all at once do what they want to we would rise up against them and their ideas. But slowly taking away small parts of our rights at a time in will be like the frog in the soup. By the time he realizes that the water in the soup is too hot, it will be too late.
We must wake up now and question and think and realize how important our freedom is. We have to act while we still can do something about it.
Organs to be taken without consent
By Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly
Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to allow hospitals to take organs from dead patients without explicit consent.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph,
the Prime Minister says that such a facility would save thousands of
lives and that he hopes such a system can start this year. The Government will launch an overhaul of the system next week, which will put pressure on doctors and nurses to identify more "potential organ donors" from dying patients. Hospitals will be rated for the number of deceased patients they "convert" into donors and doctors will be expected to identify potential donors earlier and alert donor co-ordinators as patients approach death. But Mr Brown, who carries a donor card, has made it clear he backs an even more radical revamp of the system, which would lead to donation by "presumed consent". The approach is modelled on that of Spain, which has the highest proportion of organ donors in the world. "A system of this kind seems to have the potential to close the aching gap between the potential benefits of transplant surgery in the UK and the limits imposed by our current system of consent," Mr Brown writes. He voted against such a system in 2004 - but sources close to the Prime Minister said last night that the measure proposed then was a much harder version of his latest plan, without families having the final say. Patients' groups said that they were appalled by Mr Brown's intervention. "They call it presumed consent, but it is no consent at all," said Joyce Robin, from the watchdog Patient Concern. "They are relying on inertia and ignorance to get the results that they want." She said that the Government had made little effort to get people to register to give up organs after death. "Where is the big media campaign, where are the leaflets? Why, when I go to see my GP, doesn't he ask me about organ donation? These are the things they should be doing - not taking away our right to decide what happens to our bodies." Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association charity, agreed. "We don't think a private decision, which is a matter of individual conscience, should be taken by the state. If people want to give the gift of life, that is their right, but it must be something that is a voluntary matter. " While polls show 90 per cent of Britons are in favour of organ donation, 40 per cent of relatives refuse consent for the organs of their relatives to be donated, a figure which rises to 75 per cent among black and ethnic minorities. To solve this, the organ taskforce plans measures to boost donation, including putting pressure on doctors to identify patients as potential donors before they have died. The taskforce report - to be released on Tuesday - calls for a senior doctor to be appointed in every hospital as a "champion" of donation, along with a lay person to spread the message about the importance of donation locally. The force, which is to publish a report on "presumed consent" this summer, hopes its 14 recommendations will lead to 50 per cent more donations in five years. It admits to a possible "conflict of interest" between medical staff, trying to save lives and those keen to ensure every possible organ is harvested. Dr Kevin Gunning, an intensive care consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and a member of the UK Transplant's advisory group, said the measures could put doctors and relatives under pressure. "If, as a doctor you have turned your thoughts to your patient being a donor when they are still living, that is a real conflict." Dr Bruce Taylor, of the Intensive Care Society warned that early indicators of death were not reliable. "The only way to be sure is to do all the tests which show brain stem death; anything in advance of that is only a prediction." But Chris Rudge, of UK Transplant, the authority in charge of organ donation and transplant, insisted patients would not be considered as donors at any point where survival was possible. |
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