Organ Donation - Transplantation
- Jan 9, 2006 - 1
Johnny Taylor, a Jackson, Mississippi cook, spent ten years hooked up to a dialysis machine three time a week — 4 ½ hours at a time. He spent much of the time napping or chatting with other dialysis patients. He also spent time going to the funerals of those who were on long waiting lists for organs that never came. Then his situation became worse and he was on dialysis almost every day. Getting desperate for a kidney transplant, he wrote a letter that he sent to a dozen churches.
Jesse Horton, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Jackson, announced from the pulpit that a church member’s husband needed a kidney from someone with O-positive blood. Larry White checked out his military ID card and saw that he had that blood-type. After church, White went to his pastor and said, “I’ll donate.”
After the transplant, Rev. Horton’s congregation helped Larry White while he was out of work for a few days. White attributes his willingness to donate to a series of messages by his pastor on love and compassion.
Jean Gordon, Ask, and Ye Shall Receive, August 21, 2004 [Access fee required]
“Oh the things that can be done with unborn babies—as long as one is prepared to kill them.
“If destroying embryos for their stem cells and for the benefit of others were not enough, it now has been reported that skin cells from an aborted baby healed burns of eight children quicker than normal grafts.
“Swiss researchers found a 2 1/2-inch patch of skin from a baby who was aborted at 14 weeks gestation provided ‘several million’ grafts to treat burns, according to HealthDay, a daily news service reporting on consumer health. The child’s mother provided written permission for the experiment, according to the report.
“The report by physicians at the University of Lausanne appeared online in the Aug. 18 edition of The Lancet, HealthDay reported.
“The use of fetal skin has ‘tremendous potential, because taking just one skin graft gives you the potential to treat thousands of people,’ said Patrick Hohlfeld, prime author of the study, according to HealthDay.
“Hohlfeld said he doubted the procedure’s huge potential would eliminate some people’s opposition to using cells from an aborted baby, The Washington Post reported.
“As Hohlfeld assumed, that fact does nothing to change his opposition, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on his weblog.
“‘Are we ready to turn aborted fetuses into organ and tissue donors?’ Mohler asked. ‘Is this just the next step of logic accepted and championed by the Culture of Death?’”
Tom Strode, LIFE DIGEST: New Stem Cell Research Encouraging but Problematic; Researchers Find New Use for Aborted Babies (Baptist Press), August 23, 2005
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1 On Nov 13th, 2006, at 3:00pm, George Hamilton wrote:
I think you are all wrong. Organs shouldmost deffintaley be donated after you die.
I mean, what are you going to do with them once you are dead?
Leaving your organs to rot in your filthy coffin is insane.
Why let the worms eat them when you could help somebody out, or possibly save a life?