Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs

Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs
Clamps, scissors and other surgical instruments used in the operating room during a kidney transplant. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Wesley J. Smith
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Because of long transplant waiting lists, bioethics and medical establishments are bent on increasing the source of organs. It has gotten so bad that some of the most influential policy advocates in bioethics are now urging that doctors be allowed to do what was once considered unthinkable—kill would-be donors for their organs.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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