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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Bishops back banning of kidney transplants (4:25 p.m.)
MANILA -- While lauding the Department of Health’s (DOH) move to ban totally the kidney transplant operations among foreigners in the country, a senior member of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has asked the agency to ensure that the policy will be fully implemented.
Malolos Bishop Jose Oliveros said the “temporary ban among the foreigners having their kidney transplanted here is a good step to stop the rampant sale and commercialization of organ donation”.
He said the Catholic Church is not against any organ donation since Jesus Christ himself gave his own life to save the world, but the mere fact that the purpose of organ donation right now is in exchange for payment showed that it is not a “altruistic task”.
“We are only allowed to donate in order to help those who are in need,” he said.
Oliveros, head of the bioethics committee of the CBCP, stressed that the CBCP condemns the rampant sale of organs in particular kidney in many parts of the country. (MSN/Sunnex) |
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