Face Transplant

[Evenstar227]

To actually respond to the post...

That's an amazing procedure, and I hope it works out for the woman. I feel proud to live in Cleveland where this was done at the Cleve Clinic (which is, incidentally, the same place where my dad & grandma were wonderfully taken care of).

Critics such as Peter A. Clark, director of the Institute of Catholic Bioethics at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said a facial transplant introduces unnecessary risks for a procedure that is not a matter of life and death.

"With something like a liver or kidney transplant, it's a life or death transplant," Clark said. "Even with a kidney or liver [transplant], you have to be put on immunosuppressants with serious side effects."

I don't understand this mentality. I'm Catholic, and I see no reason to not have done this despite it not being a "life or death" situation. For crying out loud. It's not like she was having recreational plastic surgery done on her nose or something.* She had trouble speaking and couldn't taste or smell. Oy vey.

*Note: Though I find recreational plastic surgery in general to be a sign of the immense superficiality of society, I can't deny that it can significantly increase a person's quality of life and self-confidence. Who am I to argue with that?