Black Market Organ Trafficking The Illegal Act Of...

Black market organ trafficking Organ trafficking deals with the illegal act of exchanging human organs or tissues at an agreed price. This practice involves mafia networks that collect organs from dead or living persons. A majority of people involved in this illicit business are poverty stricken and so, they see it as a promise of a brighter future. While the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined strict rules, imposed ethical standards along with the absence of any monetary compensation, the trade of organs in the black market has continued to develope ridiculously. As much as most people willingly sell their organs, a good number of dealers indulge in human trafficking and in the process, remove these organs to sell in the black market, without the consent of the owner. Even without indulging in human trafficking other methods of getting human organs without consent still exist. In Argentina, for example, cases have been reported on the removal of corneas of patients who were declared brain dead after falsifying brain scans. In Nicaragua, there have been reports that about 400 children disappear each year, the real reason officially unknown, but international social organizations that monitor children have listed these merchants as their top suspects. In Brazil also, reports claim an average of two bodies with extracted organs, belonging to children, are found each day. Sometimes, children are abducted and subsequently appear alive, but with scars indicative ofShow MoreRelatedSelling Human Organs10012 Words   |  41 PagesTERM PAPER RESEARCH : Selling Human Organs ARTICLE 1 : Should people be allowed to sell their organs? Currently, exchanging organs for money or other valuable considerations is illegal, but some members of the medical and business communities would like to change that. One of those is the American Medical Associations influential Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Convinced that the balance of moral and ethical concerns favors the ability to sell organs, they would like the laws to change