Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!mazur From: mazur@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: individual control - (nf) Message-ID: <1014@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 06:07:50 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1014 Posted: Wed Mar 7 06:07:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:40:55 EST Lines: 19 #R:phs:-220300:inmet:10900058:000:694 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