Subj : Selling Body Parts To : LEE LOFASO From : BOB KLAHN Date : Thu Dec 04 2014 01:09:00 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 bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn .... (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore, (K)ick system? * Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg] --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org (1:123/140) .