Obama czar advocated organ harvest without consent

Cass Sunstein (pictured) is Barack Obama’s choice to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

What few people know is that Sunstein has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.

Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done.

The major obstacle to increasing organ donations is the need to get the consent of surviving family members.

This “problem” would be remedied if governments changed the laws for organ donation.

If the government turned the law around and assumed that, unless people explicitly choose not to, then they want to donate their organs – a doctrine they call “presumed consent.”

One critic said, “apply this logic to criminal law and citizens would be presumed guilty until proven otherwise.”

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