The Epidemic Of Organ Trafficking

A man, who had left his country for a business trip goes for a night out. He is not married, and a business trip should not always be business. A night out to relax and enjoy a new place is exactly what he had planned. On his night out he met with a very pretty woman, seductive, tempting. He talks with her, shares drinks with her. He steps away, and when he comes back and takes a sip of his drink, things change. The mood becomes… tense. The man feels dizzy and disoriented. He cannot see correctly, and then he blacks out. The next morning, the man wakes up in a tub of ice in his hotel room with a sharp pain on his lower back. When he looks, he sees a surgical cut where there is pain. It does not take long to realize that he was drugged and had …show more content…
A lot of organ trafficking is done through gangs who trick people in a variety of ways. Presumably, “...they [organized crime syndicates] trick the person into giving up the organ. For instance, there are cases where the so-called patient is treated for a sickness they don’t have, and the traffickers make off with the organ. Or they force the person into giving it. But oftentimes, it is a cash payout that draws people out.” (Big Think). It continues with the fact that these people who donate their kidney, or section of liver or any other organ ends up cheated with a lower amount than originally planned. Still, what needs to be understood is that adults are not the only victims. There are stories where children are used for these organ trafficking rings. Some stories include “...a child in China who had his eyes cut out, possibly for the corneas, an African girl who was kidnapped and rescued in the UK before her organs could be harvested…” (Big Think). These are not the only stories, and they are horrifying to read. The other issue is, is that it is not only organized crime making money off of illegally harvested organs, but terrorists as well. In fact, “The UN is even looking into reports that ISIS, the wealthiest terrorist group ever, may be in the business of selling its victim’s organs” (Big Think). The article goes on to explain that this is common in wartime, especially in dirty wars with undisciplined armies. This is due to the fact that in depressed times, go from the poor people in the slums to the rich, and that includes those in the United States. Yet, nothing is ever being done about illegal trafficking of organs, not even in places where trafficking of any sort is illegal, such as the United States, for the sole purpose that the government does not do anything for