Big organ trade in China, reports Wash Times, and why not, the authorities argue implicitly:
“These groups are useless to the state,” Mr. Gutmann said. “They are toxic, so you can’t release them. But they’re worth a great deal of money in terms of their organs.”
Gutmann is of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which keeps an eye on such things. He’s analyzing Chi-com thinking, of course.
But the argument! Useless to the state! Like Down Syndrome child before birth, or oldster for whom med care is denied in the total state.
More: We forget the role of the Christian Church in humanizing our responses. The 10th-century Norsemen routinely exposed flawed or female infants, in forests or on mountainsides, or pitched them into the water and made marriage choice a wholly paternal matter. (See intro to Sigrid Undset’s Gunnar’s Daughter, by Sherrill Harbison. ) Then came King St. Olav (we say Olaf), who imported another way of looking at such matters, namely Christianity.
Blithe Spirit 