THE WASHINGTON RUMOR MILL has it that the president’s commission to consider bioethical issues such as, but not limited to, cloning, is about to issue its report on the possibility of creating a market for human organs. And the word is that the bioethicists have decided that it is a bad idea to allow donors to sell hearts, lungs, livers, and other vital organs to patients desperately in need of transplants. Another triumph of bureaucratic and well-intended thinking over economic good sense–and a lethal one at that.
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