The Curmudgeon

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Friday, November 14, 2008

If Thy Kidney Offend Thee

A government-appointed "taskforce" (heaven forfend that the Glorious Successor should resort to anything so civilian as a committee) has decided that it is "too soon" to change the law on organ donation in favour of saving more lives. Since this is one of the Government's few sensible initiatives, the taskforce has declared that there should be "targets for increasing the number of organ donations", rather than measures for increasing the number of available organs. It appears that the soldiers of justice on the taskforce may have been "unduly swayed by representations from religious groups" who believe that a dead body created in the image of a non-material and omnipresent deity is more valuable than the well-being of someone whom that deity has seen fit to smite with organ failure. Never one to accept undue representations from religious groups, Gordon has accepted that he cannot override the findings of the taskforce and that he must "find consensus" between offending the superstitious and letting people die. I wonder what he will do.

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