"Organ harvesting" refers to the practice of removing organs from a person's body without their consent, often for the purpose of transplantation or sale on the black market.
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DISCOVER's look at the complexity
of organ harvesting may have been unsettling, but telling the truth is our # 1 job.
Taking place in contemporary Los Angeles, it chronicles the misadventures of the desperate perpetrators — each of which personifies the title — behind a failed
organ harvesting scheme.
In the wake of the
fetal organ harvesting exposé, the pro-life movement mounted vigorous and continuing protests in front of Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.
Despite their strong opposition to brain death, Truog and Shewmon both refuse to acknowledge the possibility that some donors may be in severe pain
during organ harvests, even though they acknowledge that some donors did exhibit reactions similar to inadequately anesthetized surgical patients who afterward reported pain and consciousness.
Of course, any suggestion that children should be cloned for directly instrumental purposes, such
as organ harvesting or providing the military with more soldiers or a basketball team with more talented players, should be rejected out of hand.
Carly Fiorina's fierce and passionate attack on Planned Parenthood's fetal
organ harvesting operation has gotten praise from conservatives and bitter attacks from liberals.
For example, to condemn
lethal organ harvesting, or pre-viability removal of an unborn child from its mother, it is not necessary to claim that the surgeon «must» have intended the foreseen death for the unborn child or the organ donor — as a result of what he did intend for the object of his assault.
There is certainly a great deal of positive news to report from China, but as has been widely discussed of late executions, torture, detention without trial and even
alleged organ harvesting by the state remain systemic.
Knight has made a career of following his own interests, cutting his teeth in spoof comedy, creating the original British edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and parlaying that success into his feature writing debut, the black -
market organ harvesting drama Dirty Pretty Things.
As well as a flood of patients, the only working Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone has to deal with rumours
of organ harvesting, says doctor Anja Wolz
Those who voted against the bill, NRLC president Carol Tobias said, «will need to try to explain why they voted against making it a crime to treat a born - alive human person as medical waste, as a source
for organ harvesting, or as a creature who may be subjected to lethal violence with impunity.»
Nevertheless, administering anesthetics to BHCs
during organ harvests is becoming more common in Europe, according to Robert Truog, professor of medical ethics, anesthesia, and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Uighur political prisoners are treated by the Chinese government as livestock: not for slave labor, but for
organ harvesting.
«Practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as other Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «evil cults» face long jail terms, forced denunciations of faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations of psychiatric experimentation and
organ harvesting.»
If one considers cloning, the storing of human fetuses for research purposes and
organ harvesting, and the whole field of genetic manipulation, no one can fail to have noticed the slow erosion of human dignity that threatens us.
Some take a fairly cold and pragmatic approach to
organ harvesting.
The government claims to have ended
its organ harvesting practices, in which political prisoners were strapped to tables and cut open, but academics point to a lack of transparency.
For a morality - based libertarianism, that would like pointing out all the people who have died because of the lack of forced
organ harvesting and then acting like this refutes all opposition to forced organ harvesting.
While calling for NAPTIP's partnership in the fight against corruption, Magu also gave full assurance to Okah - Donli, of the EFCC's support in combating the increasing cases of «
organ harvesting» involving Nigerians.
Excerpted from The Undead:
Organ Harvesting, the Ice - Water Test, Beating - Heart Cadavers — How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death by Dick Teresi.
SYNOPSIS: The lives of a luchador, an ex-con and an addict collide when
an organ harvesting scheme goes awry.
From director Ryan Prows, this is about the sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador that collide when
an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.
Three stories intertwine when distinct characters of the underworld become involved in a lowlife's criminal act of
organ harvesting and human trafficking.
OK, so nobody can long - range scan for your implant, but how serious are you about protecting your database so it doesn't get sold to bounty hunters extorting your password and
organ harvesting, as well as your wife and child?