The "Let's Kill for Organs" Meme Continues

We are a society of public policy promise breakers. Advocates for radical transformations in law and culture promise their proposed changes will be constrained and regulated by strict guidelines. Then, when the policy becomes law, it is often "Katy, bar the door" and the old promises are forgotten.

That pattern has not played out with organ transplant medicine. Yet.

Not for lack of trying, however. Many in bioethics and the transplant field want to break the important promise solemnly made t...