Murderer Gets A New Liver. Sure, Why Not?

Johnny Concepcion stabbed his wife to death, then ate rat poison as the police closed in on him after a lengthy manhunt. The rat poison destroyed his liver, and after a search of the donor list, they found a donor for Concepcion, pushed him to the top of the waiting list, and performed a transplant.

As expected, there is much outrage over this, and the outrage is justified. This man stabbed his estranged wife and mother of his children fifteen times, then ingested rat poison in a cowardly attempt to avoid arrest. The excuse given after this good for nothing killer was given a new liver? Doctors are not meant to make moral decisions regarding their patients.



I agree that doctors are not there to make moral decisions, but to claim that refusing this man a transplant, or at least putting him at the bottom of the waiting list would be a slippery slope into other morality based decisions in the medical field is ridiculous! The reason it's so ridiculous is because doctors are already making moral, and quite frankly, unethical decisions when they refuse to perform a legal, safe abortion or dispense birth control. Basically, what this is saying is that they will not judge a man who violently stabs his wife to death, but they will judge and force their morals on a woman who attempts to make a responsible decision regarding her own body. Whether one is pro-life or pro-choice, failing to see the hypocrisy in this false sense of ethics takes a great overdose of denial.

Doctors make morality based decisions when they aren't meant to each and every day, so to claim that they gave this killer a new  liver because they don't judge people is probably the dumbest thing to come out of the medical community in a long time. In fact, they made a morality based decision when they gave him a new  liver - they decided that murder and violence against women in general is kind of okay.

There are over 16,000 people in the United States currently waiting for a liver. I cannot speak for all of these people, but I bet it's safe to say that none of these people are cold blooded murderers who will (hopefully) be living out the rest of their miserable lives in a jail cell. Why should Concepcion have precedence over these people? I'm not saying that the man should be left to die, though in all honesty, I wouldn't care one way or another if he did, but to put him on the top of the organ donor list is a slap in the face to everyone that is still waiting right now.