Ideas (About Bioethics) Have Consequences

When it comes to the healthcare system, we have a distinct and worsening problem of trust. People have noticed the increasing utilitarian bent in bioethics that values the lives of some patients over those of others, pushes medical rationing based on invidious discriminatory categories, and debases the intrinsic dignity of human life. This results in unwanted consequences. Here is a case in point.

The organ transplantation community is continually on the lookout for ways to increase the orga...