Massachusetts Bill Would Cut Prison Time for Organ Donations.

Friday, February 03, 2023

Newly proposed legislation would allow incarcerated people in Massachusetts to trade one precious commodity, donated organs, for another: Time.

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Disturbing AF

#1 | Posted by Tor at 2023-02-03 12:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Capitalism Is A Government Program.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-02-03 12:58 PM | Reply

There's also talk lately about using comatose women as surrogate pregnancy vessels.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-02-03 12:58 PM | Reply

Link?

#4 | Posted by Tor at 2023-02-03 01:37 PM | Reply

Your mama.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-02-03 04:00 PM | Reply

Yet women are forced to donate their bodies for 9 months for unwanted pregnancies.

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2023-02-03 04:47 PM | Reply

Incredibly unethical.

If the goal is to incentivize organ donation, why focus exclusively on the incarcerated? They have tremendous motivation to want to get out of prison and therefore may not make a reasonable decision if this program is available.

This is honestly a sick proposal and i doubt it will go anywhere.

#7 | Posted by JOE at 2023-02-03 05:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If some inmate had say a one in a billion protein in their blood I would be okay with their getting their own prison cell and a special diet delivered to them every stinking day along with their own medical team so long as they kept donating blood.

You know what I wouldn't be okay with? Their getting a single day off their sentence.

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Are we really that hard up on organ donors?

#8 | Posted by Tor at 2023-02-03 05:11 PM | Reply

Why not just let the rich pay for organs from the poor?

This crap has unbelievable potential for abuse. It is abuse. The Chinese do something similar and it's called monstrous. They harvest organs from the executed.

That's arguably less exploitative than this is.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2023-02-03 05:18 PM | Reply

But govt healthcare?

#10 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-02-03 06:33 PM | Reply

But govt healthcare?

#11 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-02-03 06:34 PM | Reply

"Why not just let the rich pay for organs from the poor?"

You have to be Steve Jobs rich for that!

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-02-03 07:41 PM | Reply

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer

The Chinese do not do something similar. The Chinese literally "execute" prisoners for their organs through organ donation and sell them.

#13 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2023-02-03 07:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Massachusetts Bill Would Cut Prison Time for Organ Donations

This idea sucks UNLESS the organ is donated upon the convict's death.

#14 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2023-02-04 02:23 PM | Reply