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EU May Ban Payments for Milk, Sperm and Blood - Marginal REVOLUTION

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BrusselsSignal: The European Parliament has approved a draft regulation banning payments for breast milk, sperm, blood and other “substances of human origin” (SoHO). Billed as an attempt to increase safety across the bloc, the ban allegedly aims to ensure that those who are financially disadvantaged within the bloc are not subject to undue pressure to donate their cells and bodily fluids. Hmmm. Why not ban the sale of labor to protect financially disadvantaged labor donors from undue pressure? Indeed, why not require that dangerous jobs like mining pay low wages so we can be sure that no one is induced to do these jobs by financial pressure? More prosaically, the European Union falls short of producing all the blood plasma it needs to meet its demand for life-saving medicine. Consequently, the European Union depends on imports—primarily from compensated donors in the United States—to address its plasma deficit. Should the proposed EU legislation be enacted, the deficit is likely to get

BrusselsSignal : The European Parliament has approved a draft regulation banning payments for breast milk, sperm, blood and other “substances of human origin” (SoHO). Billed as an attempt to increase safety across the bloc, the ban allegedly aims to ensure that those who are financially disadvantaged within the bloc are not subject to undue pressure to donate their cells and bodily fluids. Hmmm. Why not ban the sale of labor to protect financially disadvantaged labor donors from undue pressure? Indeed, why not require that dangerous jobs like mining pay low wages so we can be sure that no one

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