Organ Donor Registration Policies and the Wrongness of Forcing People to Think of Their Own Death

American Journal of Bioethics 16 (11):35-37 (2016)
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Abstract

MacKay and Robinson (2016) claim that some legal procedures that regulate organ donations (VAC, opt-in, opt-out) bypass people's rational capacities and thus are “potentially morally worse than MAC”, which only employs a very mild form of coercion. We provide a critique of their argumentation and defend the opposite thesis: MAC is potentially morally worse than the three other options.

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Tomasz Żuradzki
Jagiellonian University
Katarzyna Marchewka
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