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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the PP above reminded me of an ethics course offered at the VA hospital that my co-worker attended.  There are limited medicines, organs, resources.  There are patients listed below:
1. 80 year old poet
2. 20 yo young man
3. pregnant woman

Who should get the limited resource?

The 20 yo young man should get it. He is the strongest to survive and has a productive life ahead of him.  The 80 yo and the pregnant lady are too vulnerable and have the highest risk of  dying post surgery.

it should go to the one who will be the most likely to survive and be [b]a productive member in society[/b].  Barring accidents, the 20 yo has 60 years ahead of him.[/quote]

Actually, the ADA prohibits utilitarian discrimination, and while the force of law may not come into play in this little girl's situation, as a society, we do not off people who are not "productive"--at least, not after birth...[/quote]

Or you can think about others who would benefit from the organ for a longer stretch of time, like the mother who another PP noted declined to have her severely retarded 2 yo on the organ list.  The child would not have been able to walk/talk with or without the organ, so the mother showed her selflessness in order that another child could receive the organ.[/quote]

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