Introduction:
Since it's first introduction on the black market in the early 1980s, organ harvesting has become a global epidemic, with New Internationalist Magazine calling it the "new form of human trafficking." Organ harvesting is being marketed to those living in poverty and third world conditions as a quick cash solution, while those who are truly profiting from the exchange are "organ brokers" and the recipients from rich countries. In a new form of global classism, the rich are by-passing long legal organ donor lists in favor of a black market organ without a thought of the care of the donor, while poor donors are pressured into a situation by a need to survive - often receiving dangerous back-alley surgeries from questionable surgeons - while being financially taken advantage of by organ brokers who make the real cash.
Victimless Crime?:
According to his online PBS article on legal organ harvesting, Craig Boyd Garner defines the practice as "the removal, preservation and use of human organs and tissue from the bodies of the recently deceased to be used in surgical transplants on the living." Organ transplants have saved countless lives that would have …show more content…
Once hidden away in these camps, they are killing them (in an attempt to wipe out the group and therefore the threat) and harvesting their organs, feeding the Chinese organ transplant industry. It's such a shocking practice, that the western community thought it must be false allegations, but (as published online by stoporganharvesting.org) in July 2006, after investigating the claims themselves, "former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour and renowned Canadian human rights attorney David Matas, published their own 140-page report" stating that "the allegations are
Since it's first introduction on the black market in the early 1980s, organ harvesting has become a global epidemic, with New Internationalist Magazine calling it the "new form of human trafficking." Organ harvesting is being marketed to those living in poverty and third world conditions as a quick cash solution, while those who are truly profiting from the exchange are "organ brokers" and the recipients from rich countries. In a new form of global classism, the rich are by-passing long legal organ donor lists in favor of a black market organ without a thought of the care of the donor, while poor donors are pressured into a situation by a need to survive - often receiving dangerous back-alley surgeries from questionable surgeons - while being financially taken advantage of by organ brokers who make the real cash.
Victimless Crime?:
According to his online PBS article on legal organ harvesting, Craig Boyd Garner defines the practice as "the removal, preservation and use of human organs and tissue from the bodies of the recently deceased to be used in surgical transplants on the living." Organ transplants have saved countless lives that would have …show more content…
Once hidden away in these camps, they are killing them (in an attempt to wipe out the group and therefore the threat) and harvesting their organs, feeding the Chinese organ transplant industry. It's such a shocking practice, that the western community thought it must be false allegations, but (as published online by stoporganharvesting.org) in July 2006, after investigating the claims themselves, "former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour and renowned Canadian human rights attorney David Matas, published their own 140-page report" stating that "the allegations are