Plan: no transplants for Muslims

-- | 05.03.2005 12:03

Liberal health-care ban directed primarily at Muslims but may affect Christian groups.

The health ministry in the Netherlands has proposed excluding Muslims from receiving organ transplants. There is a permanent shortage of donor organs, and the health minister specifically blamed Muslims, who refuse removal of organs on religious grounds. The plan is a tit-for-tat retaliation: Muslims will get lowest priority to receive transplants. Since there is such a shortage, in practice they will never get one.

The health minister is from the Liberal party. The proposal illustrates the deteriorating social climate, with bitter hostility between Dutch and Muslims. However, it could also affect smaller Protestant churches, whose members refuse to donate blood and organs.

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Seems fair

05.03.2005 15:56

As Muslims don't want to donate organs for faith reasons I guess they won't want to be recipiants of them for the same reason so this rulling won't affect them.

Joe

can you give us a source for this allegation?

05.03.2005 16:27

please?

sceptic

Sources

06.03.2005 12:02

Relevant news reports, in Dutch of course..

www.nrc.nl/binnenland/artikel/1109916343764.html

www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/18686121/ Moslims_boos_over_uitspraak_Hoogervorst.html

www.volkskrant.nl/denhaag/1109830356762.html

But

06.03.2005 16:39

what about the muslims who carry an organ donor card?

"white people" are more likely to carry/propagate sexually transmitted diseases, should they be put lower down on the STD clinics?

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Read again

06.03.2005 20:01

"what about the muslims who carry an organ donor card?"

Errrr that's the point of the post, Muslims don't carry doner cards because it goes against their faith (rather like some Christians and Sikhs).

RE: Read again

07.03.2005 18:04

erm, read again. I DO!! (I did until I lost my wallet).

strike