Showing posts with label laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laws. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Kidney Transplants in Pakistan. Many patients unaware that paying donors is illegal.

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Here's a recent paper on  "Barriers to Kidney Transplants in Pakistan.  A striking fact is that only 4.9% of patients with kidney f...
Friday, April 25, 2025

JAMA declined to publish this letter on kidney donation

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 JAMA recently published the following Viewpoint, whose title adequately summarizes its main point: The End Kidney Deaths Act Risks Irrevers...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

How the Trump administration is ignoring judicial orders halting blanket payment bans

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Federal judges have issued injunctions against President Trump's Federal payment bans, for example for foreign aid.   But payments haven...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Anti trans leads to anti transplant in Indiana Senate

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 In Indiana, the Daily Journal reports on a debate that has at least temporarily stalled a bill meant to protect organ donors' access to...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The right to contraception is open to question again in the U.S.

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  Here's a paper in the J. of Women's health that brings us up to date on contraception law in the U.S. The Right to Contraception A...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

The market for (ethical) pornography

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  Will regulation, lawsuits and competition for creators increase the supply of ethical porn? Wired has the story: The Sticky Dilemmas of Po...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Adultery is no longer a crime in New York State.

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 Not only is jaywalking no longer a crime in New York City, the seldom-enforced criminal law against adultery in New York State has now bee...
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

The End Kidneys Death Act has growing support

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I've earlier blogged about the  Coalition to Modify NOTA (the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984) . Here is a summary of their propos...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Legislative proposals to help living kidney donors

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 Martha Gershun brings us up to date on various proposed pieces of legislation to help organ donors and increase access to transplants. Legi...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Guns and gun control

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  In the U.S., gun sales are both a protected transaction and a repugnant one. The right to bear arms is protected by the 2nd Amendment to t...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

More anti-gay legislation in Uganda

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 The NY Times has the story about new anti-gay legislation awaiting signature by Uganda's president: We Will Hunt You’: Ugandans Flee Ah...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The (American) market for assault rifles

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There was a time when Americans thought that rifles were for hunting game, and assault weapons were banned.  That has changed. The Washingto...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Donate blood or organs to pay a traffic fine or shorten a prison term?

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I spend a lot of my time thinking and writing about repugnant transactions and controversial markets, and some of that intersects with my wo...