The War Room

WHO OWNS YOUR BODY? THE NEW DEMOCRATS OF COURSE!

Ontario New Democrat, Peter Kormos has introduced a bill into the Ontario legislature that will make organ donation compulsary for all Ontarians unless one states otherwise.

"...he wants to make it so organs are automatically donated for transplant unless the patient specifies otherwise.

He says the bill is necessary because too many people die while awaiting transplants."

I find this kind of bill quite distrubing. It is an intrusion on the very body of the human being by the government, and as always 'for the betterment of society.'

This is one more step on behalf of the New Left to defacto control what people do with their bodies.

This is always where the proverbial 'slope' begins. Now I have no problem with someone who wants to donate their organs or even their body to science if they so desire. That is their right and choice. However, this bill makes it defacto that one does not own their body upon death unless they specify otherwise. The moral questions and ramifications are endless...

What if someone forgets to fill out their 'objection' and dies in an abrupt accident but their kin knows they object?

Who will prevail? The government...the relatives? What if it is a serious objection due to religious faith? Would that take precedence in the view of the Ontario courts?

I think we all know the answer to that last question.

Once we establish a culture that permits the state to defacto own your organs unless one states otherwise, how long until it becomes a question of, 'should anyone be allowed to refuse to give their organs away?' If it is for the public good after all, should anyone be allowed to refuse?

What if someone is dying who has healthy organs and refuses to donate; will the government put pressure on them or their family to change their mind if someone is in need at that moment? What if it were a really important person who needed the organs and a poor powerless person who was dying?

How long until someone makes the argument that after you are dead you do not need your body anyway?

The various ethical dilemmas are endless with life issues and if history teaches us one thing, it is that the New Left, with an atheistic world view, sees the human body with no sense of sacremental respect whatsoever. Bring religious beliefs into it and you are guaranteed to lose.

Consider the garrish exhibt on display at the Ontario Science Centre of the human corpses, done in the name of 'education.' Would that display be seen as a legitimate use of the human body by the government?

Could human organs be deemed necessary by the state for scientific research? Could they be sold?

These are all hypotheticals of course, but with the New Left, no hypothetical can be seen as too extreme; none to radical.

We have already seen with same-sex marriage that many of the 'doomsday scenarios' have already played out on a small scale. Things we were told would never happen.

This is the sort of issue where the closet libertarian in me screams out.

I hope this bill fails handily. I have my doubts.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 3:42 PM