illegal organ sales

Nancy Schrper-Hughes has spent over 10 years pursuing the black market sales of human organs. The organs being sold are harvested in the slums of lower third class communities around the world. The money paid by the person in need of the organ is high, the person who sold the organ gets little of the money. The broker keeps most of the money.

The places you can get the organs is growing, from Nicaragua to Nigeria from Russia to the Philippines. You can get the organs transplanted by the leading surgeons in the world such as in New York, Los Angeles, and other cites in the United States. Two surgeons in Philadelphia are named repeatedly to have transplanted brokered organs.

I think that people should be able to sell their organs for profit but as long as it is controlled by some neutral party. The party should regulate how and when the organ is harvested and how much is paid. The need for transplants are growing dramatically. The average wait list for a new kidney in the U.S. is guessed to be 10 years in 2010. Most people on dialysis patients die in 5 years. So the fact that the black market is flourishing isn't surprising, the desperate don't play by the rules.