Otern wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:
The organ harvesting is not even consensual.
Read that article now. And the proposal is not about taking organs without consent. The parent's consent is still needed. This is actually a good thing, if they're able to propose the question in a proper manner to the parents, and the kid is dead or dying already, it's a good thing that their organs can be used to save lives.
I am talking about the earlier article where they actually were harvesting baby organs without consent at that very hospital.
I think they are doing this routinely but they don't tell people. Remember, they still have no idea what was wrong with Alfie. So they don't really know whether he would improve if he left (assuming they are even honest about that much). In my experience with government agents in the American version of the NHS (the VA hospitals), these people have ZERO regard for your autonomy and consent. They believe they know better and they will do whatever they want to do, even employ the police to coerce you (as they did to me once), and they will never be held accountable for it because they are the people who are supposed to hold themselves accountable.
Baby organs are the most valuable organs that exist, by the way. I think they determined this child had no hope without ever bothering to figure out what was actually wrong with him. The parents decided to take him to Italy where doctors wanted a shot at the problem, and the hospital freaked out and asked the police to allow them to kidnap and execute Alfie rather than allow him moved to another care facility. That's odd, no?
It makes a lot of sense when you consider that they knew those organs were valuable, and they determined his life was not worth the lives they could save (or even the money they could earn), but then if they let him out and doctors who actually gave a shit about Alfie cured him, they'd probably have to flee the country, because no way no how would they ever be able to walk openly on the British streets after that revelation.
And I still hold hope the evidence will come out.