A new bill proposed in Massachusetts would allow incarcerated individuals the option of donating their organs or bone marrow in exchange for a reduction in their sentences. The bill’s authors believe the move will expand the state’s pool of donors and “restore bodily autonomy” to inmates, but ethics experts say it’s potentially exploitative and may also be illegal.
“I don’t see an ethical justification for the proposed Massachusetts law,” John Hooker, an ethics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told Yahoo News. “If it is OK to release prisoners early due to organ donation, they should be released early without the donation.”
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