Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street, and we are

answering your questions. All of these questions were sparked by Breakpoint Commentary, short courses,

articles, or the Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to send us a question of your own,

please do that by emailing us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org.

John, at the Colson Center, we talk a lot about the image of God.

It's a central theme for us.

It's a foundational theme in Scripture.

That's the reason we talk so much about it.

It's the basis for human moral value and agency, regardless of the kind of cognitive and physical abilities

that an individual has.

And we did a commentary recently about the crisis of illegal discrimination in organ donations,

discrimination specifically against those with disabilities who are kind of being viewed

in that field as unworthy of receiving these organs,

that their life is not as valuable as other people's lives.

So we got a question in regard to that, and it's a very good question as to how we sort out,

how we do the sort of moral work around who lives, who dies, who gets organs,

because there's a very real sort of set of decisions

that need to be made there. This person asks, I agree that people with disabilities should not

be deemed unworthy of transplant. That said, with the imbalance of supply and demand, what do you

propose is an ethical way to choose who is at the head of the line?

I worked in kidney transplant. I'm a PA. And I can tell you, even without the disability issue, the system is corrupt.

Well, first of all, that question doesn't give me much hope that there's a way to fix it, you know, just starting with the line from somebody from the inside that the system is corrupt.

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