23Oct/15

Guest Post: Vampire Judges and Blood Money: Blood Donation as Criminal Sanction? – Practical Ethics (blog)


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Guest Post: Vampire Judges and Blood Money: Blood Donation as Criminal Sanction?
Practical Ethics (blog)
Early one September morning, plaintiffs at a rural Alabama County court in the US, were greeted with an unexpected and highly unusual offer. To quote presiding Judge Marvin Wiggins: “There’s a blood drive outside, and if you don’t have any money, and
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23Oct/15

Give and take: When the profit motive clouds milk donation – Mail & Guardian Online


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Give and take: When the profit motive clouds milk donation
Mail & Guardian Online
At eight weeks, Austin died of an unrelated infection, but Bryan was so grateful for the donor milk her sons had received that she donated her own excess milk to the Texas Children’s Mothers’ Milk Bank. “There’s just a nice feeling,” she says, “because