Organ notes

Addressing a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life, card-carrying (potential) organ donor Benedict XVI celebrated recent progress in transplant technology and praised organ donation as an “act of love.” But he warned of the ethical dangers posed by “market logic” in the allocation of needed organs, and of the temptation to extract parts […]

Addressing a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life, card-carrying (potential) organ donor Benedict XVI celebrated recent progress in transplant technology and praised organ donation as an “act of love.” But he warned of the ethical dangers posed by “market logic” in the allocation of needed organs, and of the temptation to extract parts of bodies not yet unquestionably dead.


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