Opt-Out: On becoming an organ farm.

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

Edward M. "Heir Ted" Kennedy, Junior
said that nobody asked those on the transplant
list what they thought about having to wait.
Therefore, according to his logic, the Gubment
doesn't have to ask us if we want to give
our organs or not. 

Ted Kennedy — junior, that is — is proving he's a good little fascist as he attempts to force US citizens onto a Gubment-mandated organ farm.

Individual rights only matter for the group he has designated as needy. As reported by statnews.com, Kennedy said: “I knew it would be controversial,” said Kennedy. “But nobody asked anyone who was on the transplant waiting list what they thought,” he added. 

What is "it" Heir Ted is referencing? Why it is the process by which the State owns your body parts unless you Opt-Out of donating your organs at death. In other words, by default you will donate your organs at death.

Of course, in Heir Ted's letter to the editor of the New Haven Register, he cites EU and compassion as the two reasons his home state should lead the way; two things guaranteed to get every P-HWPCDLRSFC* to put that plan into action:

"...Over 30 countries around the world, including 24 European nations, have “presumed consent” or “opt-out” policies, resulting in very high organ donation rates. Connecticut can lead the way — and save lives — with an easier and more compassionate organ donation policy." 

We know how well the EU is doing on everything else, so obviously they are totally right about opt-out organ donation. As proof that it is the best way to serve with failed or failing organs, fascist members of the Gubment have decided their needs come before freedoms the Constitution guarantees.

According to the online report referenced above, someone who lives in Heir Ted's jurisdiction wrote in a letter to the New Haven Register that the bill “insinuates that after our death, our bodies are by default the property of the state unless we have previously ‘opted out.’”

A 2012 study found that organ donation rates are “typically exceeding 90 percent in opt-out countries and failing to reach even 15 percent in opt-in countries.” Sounds good, right? Well, here are several reasons why that happens: Laziness in reading the forms. Inability to understand what opt-out means. But mostly peer pressure as quoted here from this linked study: 

In the opt-in case, the question posed to potential donors is something akin to, “Do you want to put yourself forward as an exceptional altruist, someone who acts for the good of others under circumstances when only particularly virtuous fellow citizens are likely to follow suit?”

In an opt-out context, in contrast, the implicit question is something akin to, “Do you want to stand out as an exceptional misanthrope, someone who fails to step forward and do one’s duty as most good citizens and community members do?”

Our contention is consistent with a long tradition in social psychology that emphasizes the importance of subjective meaning and the degree to which individual and collective interpretations of prevailing circumstances, and not the objective circumstances themselves, determine people’s behavior.

If it works better and we get what we need, then so what?

Two reasons. Constitutional-guaranteed freedoms and real science. We know what the Constitution guarantees. But real science says that, “In order to be an organ donor, you have to die in a way that keeps oxygenated blood flowing through the organ,” explained United Network for Organ Sharing spokesperson Anne Paschke. “But only 2 percent of people die that way.”

But does that matter to our dear fascist Heir Ted? Will he raise the issue as long as it gets him headlines and power? We wait and see. However, there are those who will push against it.

*P-HWPCDLRSFC = Pussy-Hat Wearing Politically Correct Democrat Liberal RINO Socialist Fascist Commie.