In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue

laron writes "In Israel, a new law is in the making: Holders of donor cards and their families would get preference if they should need an organ for themselves. Apparently this initiative faces resistance from Orthodox rabbis, who hold that organ donation is against religious law. Jacob Lavee, director of the heart transplant unit at Israel's Sheba Medical Center, and one of the draftees of this new law, hopes that a broader pool of organs will ultimately benefit everyone, but acknowledges that one of his primary motivations is 'to prevent free riders.' (Apparently receiving an organ is OK under religious law.)"

Comments

Re:Never even thought about it

[icebraining]

The very fact that your doctors can receive money for your organs shows a flawed system.

Re:pig heart donors however

[Dog-Cow]

Given that no Arabs in the region want peace and that every Arab nation in the Middle East tacitly, if not explicitly, supports the acts of terror that make peace impossible, I'd say Israel is doing OK.

Re:AGAINST RELIGIOUS LAW

[Philip K Dickhead]

Play the victims again - it works every time.