Opt-out organ donation will treat bodies like 'clapped out cars'

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Opt-out organ donation will treat bodies like 'clapped out cars'
Human bodies risk being treated like "clapped out cars" which are stripped for parts, a patient group warned as the Welsh Assembly voted in favour of presumed consent for organ donation.

By Ben Riley-Smith11:56AM BST 02 Jul 2013174

In a vote taken by members of the National Assembly for Wales the move, where people will be presumed to have consented for their organs to be donated unless they opt out, was passed.

Patient Concern said the proposals would treat human hearts like a "used car horn" and could lead to mix-ups that would trigger a national scandal.

The radical shake-up of the law on organ donations was passed by 43 votes to eight, with two abstentions. The bill was debated for five hours and Assembly Members considered more than 70 amendments at the Senedd.

Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: “This is a huge day for Wales, for devolution and, most importantly, for the 226 people in Wales waiting for an organ transplant.

“I am proud that Wales will be the first nation in the UK to take this step."

But Joyce Robins of the campaign group Patient Concern said: "This legislation will result in human bodies being treated like clapped-out cars.

"You strip them of parts for reuse, unless the owner prefers to scrap the whole vehicle. Its outrageous to pretend that people feel no differently about a human heart from a used car horn."

Is the one's dream?

[Rick]

It is not your body, the state paid for the care, they can do with the remains as they please. And this is not news, Spain has been doing this for years.

[JohnnyReb]

Who would want parts from a DUmmies drug and perverted sex riddled body?

Damn socialist take taxes from the productive citizen while alive, tax his estate when he dies and now their even going to rob from his body before he goes to his grave.

[obumazombie]

One step removed from Robin Cook's "Coma".