The Voluntary Blood Donations Act” prohibits paying and receiving payment for blood, either directly or indirectly. With this bill, the legislature has made the giving and receiving of blood a sacrament. The simplest solution to the blood and plasma shortage is to desacralize blood and plasma. Instead of bowing our heads to this idol, we should see it as the false idol it is, and get back to having a market in blood.
Commodifying Blood Donation Could Solve Canada’s Shortfall
Commodifying Blood Donation Could Solve Canada’s Shortfall
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