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Rub it better till it bleeds
I'm sure everyone else heard about this weeks ago, but I am behind the times:
Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days.
Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their sentences.
A state Senate panel on Thursday endorsed creating an organ-and-tissue donation program for inmates. But legislators postponed debate on a measure to reduce the sentences of participating prisoners, citing concern that federal law may not allow it.
"I think it's imperative that we go all out and see what we can do," said the bills' chief sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ralph Anderson. "I would like to see us get enough donors that people are no longer dying."
Paging Mr. Niven . . .
Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days.
Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their sentences.
A state Senate panel on Thursday endorsed creating an organ-and-tissue donation program for inmates. But legislators postponed debate on a measure to reduce the sentences of participating prisoners, citing concern that federal law may not allow it.
"I think it's imperative that we go all out and see what we can do," said the bills' chief sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ralph Anderson. "I would like to see us get enough donors that people are no longer dying."
Paging Mr. Niven . . .
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Out of random curiosity, I wonder what people's reactions would be to a law giving people tax deductions for donating kidneys. Is the concern the treatment or prisoners, the idea of body parts being fungible, or the idea that people who did nasty things can get out of a chunk of it by donating a kidney? (I mean, they all bother me; I'm just curious.)
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I wouldn't be any more comfortable with that. One's own body parts should not be bargaining materials.