Vancouver Sun: Selling blood just as unethical as selling body parts

Posted on: August 9th, 2016 by webmaster

Sure, we have a law that prohibits organ sales, but in truth, selling blood and selling body parts are at the same end of that economic ideological spectrum.

After the supply was found contaminated in the 1980s and ’90s, the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada opposed people selling their blood. A bit farther out on the spectrum, the World Health Organization says the commercialization of organs represents a gross violation of human rights and dignity.

Is it fair to group the issue of people selling their blood to commercial traffic in organs and body parts? Yes, because they are quite close on the spectrum of economic ideology raised by the minister.

Read the full article on the Vancouver Sun web site.