http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117021
Another deadly government dictum
Walter E. Williams
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The Institute for Justice is not challenging Congress’ ban on compensation for solid organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers. Instead, the lawsuit challenges only the provision of the National Organ Transplant Act that bans compensation for bone marrow. The premise of the Institute for Justice’s legal challenge is that there is a fundamental biological distinction between renewable marrow cells and nonrenewable solid organs. In the case of bone marrow, the donor’s bone marrow is completely replenished in a few weeks. That’s less time than it takes for the human body to fully replenish a pint of donated blood that is often sold to blood banks.
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Why are only the doctors and hospitals allowed to earn money from transplants?
We know that free markets are the ultimate in democratic freedom. No coercion. No fraud or force permitted.
Think of a poor family that has bury a loved one. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to have an “inheritance”? Why bury or incinerate the “family fortune”?
We have abysmal rates of organ donations. We have waiting lists of people dying. All because of our cultural reluctance to permit the buying and selling of organs. Free markets always “clear”. No free markets have “waiting lists”!
So lets nuke UNOS and put our friends at WalMart in charge of solving the problem.
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Reinke Faces Life 