{"id":12868,"date":"2025-07-30T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:09:41","slug":"ireland-is-automatically-putting-adults-on-the-organ-donor-list-perilous-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/ireland-is-automatically-putting-adults-on-the-organ-donor-list-perilous-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Is Automatically Putting Adults on the Organ Donor List: \u2018Perilous Path\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is incredibly scary especially as a previous post<\/a> pointed out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hospitals increasingly rely on normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) to artificially induce brain death after declaring circulatory death, bypassing legal and ethical protections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Read that as they are literally killing you on the table to harvest your organs, and why I’m not an organ donor. So you have to opt out in Ireland or you’re on the organ donor list automatically. And these doctors have a huge financial incentive to harvest your organs and give them to others. After COVID, that should scare you to death, as very few doctors bucked the medical protocols or pharmaceutical efficacy and safety of giving people a highly experimental gene therapy which we now know was not worth the risk, having killed too many, not to mention those harmed and still suffering with the risk of early death. These white coats today are ghouls, and if you blindly trust them you could pay the ultimate price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/ireland-is-automatically-putting-adults-on-the-organ-donor-list-perilous-path\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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A Irish new law, which is referred to as a \u2018soft opt-out organ donation system,\u2019 includes every citizen over the age of 18 on the organ donor list without their permission.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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If you are an adult Irish citizen, you are likely now a potential organ donor \u2013 whether you know it or not.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 17, the Human Tissue Act 2024 came into effect in Ireland. \u201cUnder this new legislation, all adults in Ireland will be considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die, unless they have recorded a decision not to donate on the National Organ Donation Opt-Out Register<\/a> or are in one of the excluded groups,\u201d Ireland\u2019s Health Service Executive (HSE) announced<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new law, which is referred to as a \u201csoft opt-out organ donation system,\u201d automatically includes every Irish citizen over the age of 18 on the organ donor list, although health officials stated that families will be consulted before the organs of a loved one are harvested. According to the HSE website<\/a>: \u201cA person\u2019s organs can be donated after: brain stem death; cardiac death. In both of these cases, there is no hope of recovery.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, to say the least, significant debate amongst ethicists about that conclusion. Pro-life ethicists emphasize that \u201ccomplete and irreversible brain death\u201d is the moment of death itself; as the Irish media outlet Gript emphasized in an editorial earlier this month<\/a>, there is reason to be skeptical of the government\u2019s move: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parts of the\u202fUnited States<\/a>, some doctors have moved to take patients off life support despite signs of improving consciousness, in order to harvest their organs\u2013 at the behest of organ donation non-profit groups. While in many of these cases, doctors must end the procedure before it begins due to patients experiencing sudden recoveries \u2013 there are worrying cases in which federal investigations ruled doctors should not have harvested patients\u2019 organs due to signs of high levels of consciousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Iona Institute, a conservative Irish think tank, Dr. Angelo Bottone also noted the spectre of \u201corgan donation euthanasia,\u201d which is now practiced in countries like the Netherlands and Belgium.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile\u202fdonation after euthanasia<\/a>\u202fis already happening in those countries, doctors are now discussing harvesting organs\u202fbefore<\/em>\u202f euthanasia<\/a>\u202fpatients are declared dead, in order to preserve organ viability,\u201d Bottone wrote<\/a>. \u201cThey propose that organs be removed under general anaesthesia before the patient is declared dead, thereby maintaining continuous blood circulation and oxygenation to the organs until the moment of retrieval. This method could significantly improve the quality and quantity of organs available for transplantation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Euthanasia is a hot topic in Ireland at the moment; in fact, Irish parliament voted last year to note a report<\/a> that urged the legalization of \u201cassisted dying\u201d in some circumstances. Euthanasia is not yet legal, but activists and political allies are pushing for it, and if the trajectory of Irish social policy over the past decade is any indication, euthanasia activists are pushing at an open door. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIreland must not embark on this perilous path,\u201d Dr. Bottone warned<\/a>. \u201cThe combination of a soft opt-out organ donation regime with the potential legalization of euthanasia is a recipe for abuse and moral pressure. Such a system opens the door to exploitation, particularly of vulnerable patients. We must defend the foundational principles of medical ethics: that life has inherent dignity and that doctors must never become agents of death.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His conclusion is well worth heeding: \u201cFailing to do so risks transforming medicine into a cold calculation of utility, where the very sick are increasingly valued for the usefulness of their body parts.\u201d Governments that embrace a culture of death cannot be trusted with the lives of their citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is incredibly scary especially as a previous post pointed out: Hospitals increasingly rely on normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) to artificially induce brain death after declaring circulatory death, bypassing legal and ethical protections. Read that as they are literally killing you on the table to harvest your organs, and why I’m not an organ donor. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12869,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions\/12869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}