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Issues, Etc.

Violations of the Dead Donor Rule – Wesley Smith, 7/29/25 (2101)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Wesley J. Smith of the Discovery Institute Wesley Smith’s National Review Columns Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die

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0:54.4

The way people are best manipulated is when they're autonomous.

0:56.1

And this is what we have done to women,

0:59.2

has told them to be by themselves, to be autonomous,

1:00.7

to be in control in their lives,

1:04.3

and not to in any way to be connected to husbands and children.

1:05.9

You know, it's important to remember.

1:09.4

Jesus never says that we need to follow his example and die for our sins, at least on the cross.

1:12.9

He's accomplished that.

1:14.5

But that doesn't mean that every day there isn't some dying and rising that happens in the shape of our Christian life.

1:20.3

And in all of these letters, he calls us not to be successful or not to be perfect, but he calls us to be faithful, to hold on to his promises.

1:31.3

Lutherans in the hospital in Illinois, love, listening to issues, etc.

1:39.3

I recently had to renew my driver's license.

1:51.9

It was interesting. I got asked a lot of questions, but they did not ask me about being coming a organ donor.

1:57.5

It was already on my previous license. They simply transferred that information over.

2:02.5

But should I be an organ donor, especially given some of the alarming news about well in essence organ procurement organizations well killing you in order to get

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