Subj : Selling Body Parts
To : LEE LOFASO
From : BOB KLAHN
Date : Thu Dec 04 2014 01:09 am
BK>> Yep. I am both pro-life and opposed to selling body parts.
LL> Yet it is okay to sell locks of hair to companies that
LL> manufacture wigs. Some folks choose to donate locks of
...
LL> are not opposed to selling or giving away hair, whether
You can give a kidney away, you just can't sell it.
...
BK>> Wrong, I figured it out long ago.
LL> If folks can sell or give away hair, why not other body
LL> parts?
Cause you grow back hair. It's not critical ... to most people.
LL>>> Now back to reality -
BK>> Ok, who wrote this and signed Lee's name to it?
LL> The otherworldlee Lee.
Ok, I believe that. After I checked it with the Men in Black.
BK>> You called her in 1997?
LL> The Wayback Machine is a most wonderful device ...
BK>> You can donate a kidney if you are alive, and have two good ones.
LL> You can donate somebody else's kidney and have two
LL> good ones. But if you donate one of your own kidneys,
LL> you'd best hope you have one good one left. :)
LL> How is a recipient going to know if he/she is receiving
LL> a good body part or a bad body part? Are body parts given
LL> ratings, such as excellent/good/fair/poor? Did Dick Cheney
LL> have a choice of which heart he could get before surgeons
LL> implanted him with a new heart? Or was he just lucky to
LL> have gotten a good one rather than another clunker?
BK>> All too often the rich get what the poor need.
LL> Why should the poor receive what the rich need most?
BK>> If somebody has the money and is willing to pay the price, the
BK>> poor will never get a transplant again.
LL> So what? The poor will always be with us. The rich can
LL> at least make a difference, at least while they are still
LL> here. So might as well keep rich folks around for as long
LL> as possible.
LL> People in third world countries are willing to sell
LL> a kidney for $1000. That might seem cheap to you, but
LL> to them that is a fortune. Denying them the right to
LL> sell their own kidneys (or other body parts) would be
LL> keeping them in the poorhouse forever. Denying them
LL> any hope of escaping a lifetime of poverty.
BK>> Walmart is trying to get into providing health care.
LL> There is no such thing as providing health care in
LL> this country. What we have is sick care, not health
LL> care.
LL> Walmart, like many other employers, are falling back
LL> to using part time employees as a means of getting around
LL> Obamacare. And until this country decides to get real
LL> about health care reform, such problems will continue
LL> to exist. Obamacare is not universal health care.
LL> It was never designed for that purpose. What it does
LL> is mandates each state to create its own version of
LL> Romneycare. Republicans hate that. For a Cemocrat
LL> to out-Republican Republicans.
BK>> Apply that to body parts.
LL> Walmart selling body parts? With Mitt Romney
LL> their pitch man? Hmmm...
BK>> To sell in quantity you have to have a supply of cheap parts.
BK>> That means a lot of donors/sellers.
BK>> With enough sellers you will be able to buy a kidney for $1000. To
LL> maintain
BK>> that we have to maintain a large number of people in poverty in this
BK>> country.
LL> Mormons are missionaries. For example, Mitt Romney did
LL> his missionary work in France. Not sure how many converts
LL> he made, given virtually every Frenchman and Frenchwoman
LL> was already a Christian. But he did learn how to speak
LL> French. And how to kiss no wait a minute Mitt Romney
LL> is a family guy and would never French kiss anywone ...
BK>> It's hard enough to get a congress owned by the rich to do
BK>> anything to help lift people from poverty, with a need for cheap
BK>> body parts there will be that much more incentive to keep a
BK>> large portion of the population poor.
LL> Not to worry. With Obama everything gonna be free.
BOB KLAHN
[email protected] http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn
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