Surgeons Rip Hearts Out of Living Children for Transplantation
Surgeons at Denver Children’s Hospital are cutting out the hearts of infants disconnected from life support after their hearts stop beating but before their brains stop functioning. They are then transplanting them into other children.
A more grotesque and evil procedure is hard to imagine. It’s disgusting. It’s indefensible.
The excuse, of course, is the transplantation: they really just want to save lives. So instead of waiting for actual death to occur, they wait until the heart stops. The same criterion is being pushed for with adult donors as well.
This is pure evil. Those responsible should be tried, convicted and executed for murder.
It’s also illustrative of how widespread organ transplantation coarsens a society. It’s one thing for someone living to give an organ (e.g. a kidney or part of a liver) to another; it’s another thing entirely to desecrate a body, rendering a man down for parts like some animal. But men are not animals, and we are more than the sum of our parts.
I hope that if my own organs failed I would have the moral strength to resist the appeal of buying my own life with another’s death.
