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So what?
After the woman's lower face was bitten and scratched off by a dog, she gets a transplant of a dead woman's lower face skin and maybe some cartilage.
As another poster stated, the facial appearance mainly comes from the underlying bones - and even if it didn't, so what? As long as the dead woman providing the material was a legal donor, by her own word or her family's, what issue can there really be? If there is something wrong with having part of someone's face, should it be illegal to ask your plastic surgeon for a Kidman nose? Should it be illegal for the doctor to make it for you?
This is only discussed because it is relatively new - not because of any real merit.