“I think people are morally obligated to allow their bits and pieces to be used to advance knowledge to help others. Since everybody benefits, everybody can accept the small risks of having their tissue scraps used in research.” -David Korn
In my opinion this is not fair. A person is still a person and they have the right to keep their body in tact and not have its "bits and pieces" used. People should not be "morally obliged" to give their body parts away to science, even if it is for the better of a larger population. I think it's okay to allow researchers to use your parts to research on, however this has to be done with the consent of whomever they are taking it from. In certain cases like that of my mother, there is not reason why anyone should have taken her cells and tissue from her, since she did not know they were going to take any, nor were they're compensations made to anyone in the family, her excluded. Therefore I believe this statement to be false.
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