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willhelm

6-27-2009 12:20 AM

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by Don Boudreaux

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e7c8178c-409e-4dfa-96df-ec353e384807/50ED9BDB-2555-4F1A-B5F5-CD4424AF03DF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cafehayek.com/hayek/2009/06/pitiless.html" href="http://www.cafehayek.com/hayek/2009/06/pitiless.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cafehayek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cafehayek.com/hayek/2009/06/pitiless.html"><P>Here's a letter that I sent recently to <EM>USA Today</EM>:</P><DIV class="blockquote"><DIV>Although you suspect that Steve Jobs received special consideration to
move to the front of the line of the many Americans seeking liver
transplants, you agree that "Paying for organs is properly banned in
the U.S." ("<A href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/06/our-opinion-organ-donors-wanted.html">Wanted: organ donors</A>," June 25).</DIV><BR /><DIV>What's proper about
a policy that reduces the supply of life-giving transplant procedures
and, thus, artificially raises the cost of such procedures?  What's
proper about condemning tens of thousands of people to lives of misery,
and very often to premature death, when many of them would otherwise
save their lives by agreeing to mutually beneficial exchanges with willing donors?  What's
proper about allowing real people to suffer real agony and real death
simply to protect an aesthetic sensibility that is hostile to certain
kinds of voluntary commercial contracts?</DIV><BR /><DIV>Far from being proper, this ban on organ sales is pitiless.</DIV><BR />Sincerely,<BR />Donald J. Boudreaux</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50ED9BDB-2555-4F1A-B5F5-CD4424AF03DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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