From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2296 Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient.
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2296 Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient. Organ donation after death is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a expression of generous solidarity.
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And as we will see later, the same idea is used to increase the anti-blood hysteria among JWs. When the WTS argued the dangers of organ transplants, this quack science was ... The advice the WTS gave on day-to-day situations based on its literal understanding of heart and mind was sometimes unintentionally humorous:
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"I HAVE named this new discovery, which I believe will be epochal in the history of the treatment of disease, and which I am exclusively announcing in THE GOLDEN AGE prior to its general publication elsewhere, The Electronic Radio Biola, which means life renewed by radio waves ... Organ Transplants Spoken of Favorably...
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Is one way to avoid the ethical mess is to have a "National" society of organ donations? ... Is it necessary to use Regitine to preserve organs, and what are its dangers?
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ORGAN AND TISSUE TRANSPLANTS: SOME ETHICAL ISSUES ... Any child that resulted following an ovary or testicle transplant would have the dead donor and not the living recipient as its biological mother or father. This would violate the rights of the child (see SCDF 1987, 23-26).
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It is this sense of local ownership, we found, that sustained the keep one-share one arrangements, whereby a transplant center that retrieved an organ kept one for one of its patients and donated one to the common pool.
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What is your position on organ transplants which are becoming evermore prevalent? What happens to the ... The use of a transplanted organ, however, no matter how well its atoms may harmonize with the rest of the recipient's dense body, will not help that person make the archetype of a better organ for use in its next life.
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Catholics view organ and tissue donation as an act of charity and love. Transplants are morally and ethically acceptable to the Vatican. According to Father Leroy Wickowski, Director of the Office of Health Affairs of the Archdiocese of Chicago, "We encourage donation as an act of charity.
www.organtransplants.org/understanding/religion/ www.organtransplants.org/understanding/religion/
"Not only could such transplants further jeopardize the lives of human patients who so desperately need a healthy organ, but also society as a whole, considering the likelihood of the patient also being infected with a dangerous retrovirus that ... AAVS also sent a copy of its letter to House Representative Jim Greenwood,
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