“Do No Harm” Morphing Into “Medical Murder Is OK”

The AMA is channeling China. AMA Helps Normalize Organ Harvesting after Euthanasia

In 1993, my first ever anti-euthanasia column warned in Newsweek that once euthanasia became accepted widely, it would be followed by organ harvesting “as a plum to society.”

By now, you know how that story goes. I was accused of alarmism, slippery-slope advocacy, conspiracy theories, etc., etc. And, as these kind of stories nearly always end, it came to be — in Canada, Netherlands, and Belgium, with more likely to follow over time.

Now coming to America, thanks to the AMA.

And it isn't standing still of course. Not just killing people with incurable illnesses and in pain, but killing people that are not deemed "fit" by their doctors.

Some of these patients (in Belgium and Netherlands) are not physically sick, but mentally ill. Believing that their deaths are more valuable than their lives — because of the lives potentially saved by their organs — could easily become the tipping point for some of these anguished patients to decide to be killed. Note: These are people who would otherwise live for years.

In other words, organ donation could be an inducement to euthanasia.

Hat tip to The Poltical Hat: Quick Takes – Deadly Harvest: Harvesting Organs… From The Healthy… and Denying It To The Mentally Disabled, in which it is noted that...

Funny how a person being killed by euthanasia has gone from an option to those suffering from a painful and terminal disease to something to happen to healthy people because they are healthy!

There is also "Harvester Of Sorrow" by Metallica. (It isn't my favorite song by Metallica, but it is appropriate.)