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Discriminatory preferences in organ transplants

Name(s):

Discrimination against tissue donors

Eugenic preferences in artificial insemination

Racial preference in blood transfusions

Active ethnic prejudice towards organ donors

Nature

It is common for people in inquire about the origin of blood, sperm or other tissues and organs which are available for donation, and state preferences for or against particular kinds of donors.

Incidence

A Jewish woman was refused space to advertise for a sperm donor because she specified the sperm had to come from a Jew.

Claim

There is no such thing as Jewish sperm, black blood or Sikh hearts.

Broader

Skin colour prejudice

Racial discrimination in sexual preferences

Discrimination in family planning facilities

Reduces

Lack of eugenic measures

Discrimination against women in parental rights

Aggravates

Fear of blood

Ritual pollution

Contamination of human body

Irrational conscientious refusal of medical intervention

Aggravated by

Racial impurity

Racial inequality

Lack of gene banks

Genetic discrimination

Moral offences in heterosexual pairing

Distorted exclusiveness of social groups

Reduced by

Lack of human organs for transplantation

Strategy(ies)

Living with complications of surgery

Expressing preferences in artificial insemination

Reducing discrimination against tissue donors

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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