Well it’s my second entry, not too long after the first. It is on another abhorrent idea coming out from the United Kingdom Government.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has backed plans to introduce a scheme of presumed consent when it comes to organ donation. This quite simply is not on!
Everyone has the absolute right of ownership of their own body in both life and death!
Why should the state be allowed to presume that I want to give my Organs? The short answer is they should never be able to make such a presumption.
This policy is just to try and plug a gap in the lack of organ donors. It’s a bit like the Chinese using the organs of executed prisoners for transplant (although, I’ll concede it’s a bit less vile). However, the same problem can be solved quite easily:
Educate more and provide easier access to the forms to register as an organ donor. Currently there is little publicity and advertising on this issue (other than when the talk about a system of presumed consent unless one opts out) and few people actually know where to go in order to sign up to the organ donor register.
It's quite simple. I don’t want the state having ownership of my organs unless I go and sign some forms to get my ownership back!
I'm not against organ donation, in fact I'm considering becoming a donor (but I feel that should be my choice, not one the state presumes)
