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| Top Sunni cleric: Use death row prisoners' organs for transplant |
| 2009-03-21 |
| Mufti Muhammad Sayid Tantawi, the head of the Al-Azhar University in Egypt and one of the most influential clerics in the Sunni Islamic world has proposed that organs of prisoners on death row be used in transplant procedures, the Egyptian newspaper Daily News Egypt reported. The proposal comes at a time when the Egyptian parliament is debating a new law on organ transplants, much of which has focused on the definition of when a person is dead. Tantawi was, according to the paper, referring to the 10 men recently sentenced to death after being found guilty of kidnapping and raping a woman. Parliamentarians opposing the proposal argued that it would be a violation of a person's basic human rights to take his or her organs without consent. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 I thought it was Robert Bloch who had the heart of a young boy... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-03-21 21:55 |
| #9 That's Esther Friesner, mojo. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-21 20:47 |
| #8 Have a heart. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-03-21 19:22 |
| #7 I suspect Tantawi has a bad kidney.... |
| Posted by: Ulealet Hapsburg9929 2009-03-21 17:05 |
| #6 That's what inspired Grom's comment, mom. "The Jigsaw Man", published originally in Dangerous Visions. Of course, Larry Niven knows all about shady moneymaking. It's in his ancestry. He's the a great-grandson of Edward Doheny, implicated in the old Teapot Dome scandal. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2009-03-21 15:25 |
| #5 Yep I remember reading that story. (I do love science fiction, it's a wonderful tool for exploring ideas) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-21 12:15 |
| #4 Larry Niven would very likely not make a pronouncement on the death penalty for the execs and the congress critters. He'd point out the fellow in one of his stories, who faced the death penalty for having six parking tickets. |
| Posted by: mom 2009-03-21 11:24 |
| #3 ..cause it's the exec's or the parts from 535 Congresscritters who craftily authorized such bonuses in documents that no one reads and you really don't know where those parts have been. Not exactly a warm fuzzy that those parts won't be subject to FDA recall later. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-03-21 11:14 |
| #2 He'd say soon afterwards that we'd establish the death penalty for executives who accept bonuses for at least $250,000 from companies who accept large amounts of federal aid. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2009-03-21 09:30 |
| #1 What would Larry Niven say? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-21 04:39 |