A Letter to the Editor in this morning's Northwest Herald called my attention to a bill in the Illinois Senate that will allow organ donation without your consent. Is this what you want?
A synopsis of SB 3613 begins, "... Provides that, on and after July 1, 2012, each resident of Illinois who is of sound mind and who has attained the age of 18 years is presumed, by operation of law, to have given all of his or her body for any organ donation purposes."
Of course, under the current law, the doctors won't be able to harvest your organs until after you die. Just a minor point; right?
And actually not "without" your consent, but rather with your "presumed" consent.
In other words, if you are a resident of Illinois, you would be presumed to have consented to organ donation.
So, if this bill (SB 3613) passes, in addition to being forced to have healthcare insurance and to having to pay for it when the government yanks the money out of your bank account, you will also be an organ donor, whether or not you want to be.
Unless you formally "opt out" of the program.
Remember when your bank decided to "give" you the privilege of avoiding nasty rejections of bad checks and overdrafts with your debit card by paying them for you and charging you hefty overdraft fees? They made the decision for you. If you read the fine print on the six pages of 1-point-font new Terms and Conditions, you found that you could opt out. But only if you didn't have to make a trip to your ophthalmologist by Page 2.
Who is behind this organ-donation legislation? Among others, Senator Pamela Althoff, who is a Chief Co-Sponsor (pictured above right).
Now I'm all for organ donation. If my body parts will help someone after I no longer am using them, fine. But I want to consent to the donation and not have the government making up my mind for me!
If you wish to express your opinion about this legislation, contact Sen. Althoff at her new email address: pamela@pamelaalthoff.net or call her office at 815.455.6330
A synopsis of SB 3613 begins, "... Provides that, on and after July 1, 2012, each resident of Illinois who is of sound mind and who has attained the age of 18 years is presumed, by operation of law, to have given all of his or her body for any organ donation purposes."
Of course, under the current law, the doctors won't be able to harvest your organs until after you die. Just a minor point; right?
And actually not "without" your consent, but rather with your "presumed" consent.
In other words, if you are a resident of Illinois, you would be presumed to have consented to organ donation.
So, if this bill (SB 3613) passes, in addition to being forced to have healthcare insurance and to having to pay for it when the government yanks the money out of your bank account, you will also be an organ donor, whether or not you want to be.
Unless you formally "opt out" of the program.
Remember when your bank decided to "give" you the privilege of avoiding nasty rejections of bad checks and overdrafts with your debit card by paying them for you and charging you hefty overdraft fees? They made the decision for you. If you read the fine print on the six pages of 1-point-font new Terms and Conditions, you found that you could opt out. But only if you didn't have to make a trip to your ophthalmologist by Page 2.
Who is behind this organ-donation legislation? Among others, Senator Pamela Althoff, who is a Chief Co-Sponsor (pictured above right).
Now I'm all for organ donation. If my body parts will help someone after I no longer am using them, fine. But I want to consent to the donation and not have the government making up my mind for me!
If you wish to express your opinion about this legislation, contact Sen. Althoff at her new email address: pamela@pamelaalthoff.net or call her office at 815.455.6330
Maybe the Bill is dead (no pun intended), because it has been sitting in the Assignments Committee since March 8 with hundreds (thousands?) of other bills.
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Next they will pass a bill requiring ugly people, who will judge that I wonder, to be penned up just for the purpose of having babies for organ harvesting. Naturally our elected officials will have first grab if they need anything. Brains anyone?
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