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youtube.com - 10/28/2009

Saving Lives: Challenging the Ban on Compensating Bone Marrow Donors (video)

— youtube.com — FOR MORE ON THIS CASE, VISIT http://www.ij.org/bonemarrowEvery year, 1,000 Americans die because they cannot find a matching... bone marrow donor. Minorities a... (more) Saving Lives: Challenging the Ban on Compensating Bone ...

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volokh.com - 28 days ago

IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: An Intro

— volokh.com — Thanks Eugene for letting me guest-blog this week about the Institute for Justice’s latest case: the first... ever constitutional challenge to the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA). Click here to view the embedded video. We’re asking the courts to ... (more) IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: An Intro

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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 10/28/2009

Markets in Everything: Bone Marrow

— meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — I'm a big fan of the Institute for Justice, which fights the good fight on issues like... economic liberty and eminent domain.  Today they're launching what may be their biggest case ever:  a fight to allow compensation for bone marrow donors . ... (more) Markets in Everything: Bone Marrow

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Selling Your Marrow
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — A suit was filed yesterday by The Institute for Justice over bone narrow compensation: MoreMarrowDonors.org wants to award the most needed bone marrow donors a $3,000 scholarship, housing allowance, or gift to the donor’s favorite charity. But the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), 42 U.S.C. § 274e, treats giving a scholarship to a college student for donating marrow like black-market organ-selling. This makes no sense. NOTA was enacted to criminalize markets in nonrenewable solid organs, such as kidneys. Bone marrow, however, is just immature blood and, ...