My organs. My choice.

[Benton]

(05-17-2019, 04:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Why is it illegal for me to sell my organs?

They are mine.  I should be able to sell a kidney to the highest bidder if I want to.  And if they take some of my organs after I die my family should get some money for them.

Socialism.

The argument is only poor people would be willing to sell organs and therefore would likely be victims of unscrupulous rich folks. Reagan and his socialist cronies in the 80s pushed through the National Organ Transplant Act, which had a similar acronym to NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). 

This was by design by the few capitalist vestiges left protecting our hard bought freedom.

Just as there are 12 original members of NATO (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States), there are 12 organ systems in the body (Integumentary, Muscular, Skeletal, Nervous, Circulatory, Lymphatic, Respiratory, Endocrine, Urinary, Reproductive, Digestive and Immune). 

The NATO/NOTA connection was a well laid warning by capitalists: Russia is coming to steal your organs, so prevent communism and give yourself over the freedom. In time, they hoped, well-rounded trillionaires would be able to spend enough money to buy Congree and repeal parts of NOTA that keep them from harvesting people.