Comments on: What We Can Learn from Iran http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/what_we_can_learn_from_iran/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:58:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: hass http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/what_we_can_learn_from_iran/comment-page-1/#comment-332748 hass Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:24:58 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/04/what_we_can_learn_from_iran/#comment-332748 Once you see someone die for lack of an organ, you get over any moral qualms quite quickly. Incidentally the Iranians have also liberal laws about stem cell research, and have government-subsidized gender change operations. Once you see someone die for lack of an organ, you get over any moral qualms quite quickly.
Incidentally the Iranians have also liberal laws about stem cell research, and have government-subsidized gender change operations.

]]> By: Bithead http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/what_we_can_learn_from_iran/comment-page-1/#comment-332543 Bithead Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:16:13 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/04/what_we_can_learn_from_iran/#comment-332543 <blockquote>Alex Tabarrok passes on word that only one country in the world has an adequate supply of donor kidneys for transplants: Iran. The reason? They allow compensation for donors. </blockquote> Yeah, well, there seems something to the idea of there being such economic conditions that people need to sell Kidneys and whatnot to survive. Necessity, it is said, is a mother.

Alex Tabarrok passes on word that only one country in the world has an adequate supply of donor kidneys for transplants: Iran. The reason? They allow compensation for donors.

Yeah, well, there seems something to the idea of there being such economic conditions that people need to sell Kidneys and whatnot to survive.

Necessity, it is said, is a mother.

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