Condemned man can't donate liver to sister

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Postby Matt » Wed May 25, 2005 7:55 pm

dcooper wrote:So, Matt, where do you come down on stem cell research? I'm hoping you don't share the President's hypocrisy on this issue ... if you believe all life is sacred and therefore we can't "kill" innocent babies (embryoes to the educated world) in order to save others, killing murderers cannot be correctly reasoned to save others. Either you believe all life is sacred or you don't. There shouldn't be a gray area there.


Dan, I don't agree with Bush at all. Forbidding the extraction of stem cells from surplus or frozen embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization procedures does not make sense to me.
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Postby Matt » Wed May 25, 2005 7:57 pm

Stretcher Case wrote:Matt can't answer the phone right now. He's too busy making money off of oil stocks.

Typical Republican -- get the libs all bent outta shape on social issues and then run off laughing to the bank!!


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Postby lukpac » Wed May 25, 2005 8:03 pm

He's dead, so this is all moot.
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Postby Stretcher Case » Wed May 25, 2005 11:58 pm

Matt wrote:
Stretcher Case wrote:Matt can't answer the phone right now. He's too busy making money off of oil stocks.

Typical Republican -- get the libs all bent outta shape on social issues and then run off laughing to the bank!!


Hello Strecher, would you belive I was at cousin Lee's house? We were discussing how to become more intelligent conservatives.


Oh I see, the vast right wing conspiracy in action!

Did you get a chance to listen to the Mark Levinson stereo system in his Lexus??

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Postby Rspaight » Thu May 26, 2005 7:41 am

Matt wrote:
Stretcher Case wrote:Matt can't answer the phone right now. He's too busy making money off of oil stocks.

Typical Republican -- get the libs all bent outta shape on social issues and then run off laughing to the bank!!


Hello Strecher, would you belive I was at cousin Lee's house? We were discussing how to become more intelligent conservatives.


Ha!

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Postby MK » Thu May 26, 2005 10:26 am

Well, at least Daniels took a closer look at the issue, but two doctors told him the liver wasn't so ideal after all. On the upside, they say the sister will get a liver in twenty days once she's on the waiting list:

"[Daniels] released a letter from two experts at Indiana University Hospital's transplant center which said Johnson's liver was not a good match for his sister, 48-year-old Deborah Otis. The letter said Johnson has Hepatitis B and large body weight, making his liver less desirable, and his sister in any case needs a full rather than partial transplant, along with a kidney from the same donor, to survive.

"Her organ is afflicted with nonalcoholic cirrhosis, though she is not currently on a transplant waiting list because of a temporary medical complication.

"The letter Daniels released said Otis would likely get a liver and kidney within 20 days once she went on a waiting list.

"Transplant requests from death row prisoners in the United States have occurred before, though they are unusual, according to Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

"In a 1995 Delaware case a condemned man donated a kidney to his mother, and returned to death row. In Alabama, a prisoner awaiting execution won permission for an organ donation, but he was not a correct match, Dieter said.

"In a Florida case, an inmate was denied a request to donate a kidney to his brother. The condemned man was later exonerated and released from jail, but his brother died waiting for a transplant, Dieter said."
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Postby Rspaight » Thu May 26, 2005 11:31 am

In a Florida case, an inmate was denied a request to donate a kidney to his brother. The condemned man was later exonerated and released from jail, but his brother died waiting for a transplant, Dieter said.


Lovely.

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