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From: mazur@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: individual control - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 06:07:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 06:07:50 1984
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inmet!mazur    Mar  6 20:44:00 1984


	There is a move afoot in the congress to regulate organ donations
	at the federal level.  One of the proposed provisions would prohibit the
	sale of any body parts.  The supposed rationale for this is to prevent
	the poor from becoming "spare parts heaps" for the rich.

I thought the rationale for this was to prevent rich people from "outbidding"
poor people in their efforts to get an organ.

Besides that, the analogy of control of the body doesn't really apply.  Women
are not allowed to "sell" their children, before or after birth.  Although
whether being paid to be a surrogate mother is "selling" is probably a matter 
of interpretation.

Beth Mazur
{ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur