What’s more is that the identities of those people need to be protected lest they be bombarded constantly for lab studies or requests for life saving donations.
Many counties have laws about paying for blood donations and don’t allow donors to be compensated in any way, so they either need to take on the financial burden of flying to wherever their blood is needed or refusing to take on the financial burden and knowingly allowing someone to die.
It’s not fair to them and while most of these laws prevent darker forms of abuse of vulnerable demographics, they don’t really account for cases like donation of rare blood types.
Many counties have laws about paying for blood donations and don’t allow donors to be compensated in any way, so they either need to take on the financial burden of flying to wherever their blood is needed or refusing to take on the financial burden and knowingly allowing someone to die.
It’s not fair to them and while most of these laws prevent darker forms of abuse of vulnerable demographics, they don’t really account for cases like donation of rare blood types.