Kosovar Organ Theft Incidents

Many of those who choose to sell their organ is either forced or manipulated by wealth. It is more likely for a poorer citizen from a developing country to be willing to supply n organ for a member of the upper class or for someone who can afford it, either through directly or through a broker. Brokers will do what every it takes to get what is being demanded. Some of the donors involved in organ trafficking are victims of body snatching or involuntary organ donations. Brokers will have the individual drugged and their organ removed without their consent to the procedure, they are also known for kidnaping poor and take whatever organ they desire and leave them there for dead. “Although estimates of trafficked persons are in their millions relatively few are identified” (Steinfall, T.M and Weitzer, R., 2011). Today brokers work with hospital staffs to locate poverty-stricken individuals to sell their organs for money. Some doctors often target children of poor countries in sell their organ in the black-market. In spite of its awareness, trafficking is still increasing. Trafficking a human organ is a growing profitable enterprise much like the unauthorized markets for weapons, humans, and drugs. Without the enforcement of laws against organ trafficking it is easier for an organ trafficker to buy and sell human organ increasing criminal

Selling organs is a rising problem in the healthcare community, government and morality. Organ sales has become the topic of discussion for numerous reasons. Some of which being lowering the wait time on the organ transplant waitlist and taking advantage of the financially disadvantaged. This issue affects many people on many different levels, some people morally or legally but mostly importantly medically. What this basically comes down to is: “Who are we to judge what people do with their bodies?”. The answer to this question lays in many different sources. The simplified answer is no we can not tell people what they can and can not tell other people what they can and can ot do with their bodies.

With the increasing need of organs for medical treatment, illegal organ black markets have become more rampant. Under such circumstances, the public debate over whether the government should legalize the sale of living human organs is fiercer. In Joanna MacKay’s essay Organ Sales Will Save Lives, she states that the government should legalize the sale of organs, since the legalization would benefit both the sellers and the buyers. Moreover, to show the potential benefits for the sellers, MacKay provides and analyzes gains from different aspects that sellers may make if the organ sale were legalized. However, what MacKay has shown is still not the whole picture. By simplifying the problems, MacKay overstates the monetary compensation for the organ sale and underestimates the possible role of exploitation, risks to organ sellers and other ethical questions. As a result, the sellers would not benefit as much as she states, and her argument about the bilateral reciprocal consequences for both organ sellers and buyers after legalization would be incomplete.

The information which the writer stated persuaded the audience to set back and think about how unethical measures are performed on humans to retrieve organs, at any cost.

“The initially, and most direct, complaint to organ sale is that it is too unsafe or hazardous for paid organ donors. Present day organ trafficking positively involves unreasonable and inadmissible levels of harm. In any

The human organ black market perpetuates the growth of unsafe surgeries in countries prohibiting the selling of human organs. In order to resolve the secrecy associated with the selling of human organs and thus legalizing this, I propose that this be a topic discussed at length and voted upon with all countries thru the World Health Organization.

In these short paragraphs, the politicians and countries will discuss different political views on the topic: Organ Trafficking.

By discussing advantage and disadvantage on the organ sale positions in the organ market, I will contend that organ sale is ethical; the arguments of decreased loss of life and the right to your own body do overwhelm issues of justice presented by free organ sale.

While it safe to think that once we all pass on, we would want to make use of our body for a beneficiary for another, there are some disadvantages that come along with certain organs of our body. Organ trading is something that happens on a day to day basis around the world, and it is certainly making headlines. There are many reasons why people do undertake organ trading, some for monetary benefits, or for people who are in life threatening situations. Organ trading affects not only the people who are giving their organs, but also the people who buy the organs. While this can be up for debate, the Perspective that will be looked at in this report, ‘Human Dignity is diminished by the selling of live

Organ Donation and Transplantation continues to be an important controversial issue in healthcare ethics. The ethical principles in allocation of human organs in a pluralistic society with conflicting ideas are norms that are meant optimal for matters of a public policy, where individuals in such a society hold various conflicting, yet a reasonable position on organ allocation. Three principals have gained primary importance in allocating organs for transplantation: utility, justice and autonomy. (http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov).

Organ trafficking is a form of widespread organized crime where inner organs are illegally obtained and traded for transplantation ("Organ Trafficking: Current Trends and Policy Challenges | Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission," 2012). Organ trafficking can happen in many different ways by using people that are not willing to sell his or her organs. You might ask, “How is this being done?” It is happening everywhere, anywhere and all the time. It is a criminal offense to traffic body parts, or perform transplants from any source not legally affiliated with a hospital or other medical facility

Organ trafficking is an illicit activity where an individual’s organs are extracted without consent. Within the nation of Kosovo, a long-running organ trafficking scandal came to light in 2008. The report examines two Kosovar organ theft conspiracies: the “Yellow House” incident as well as the Medicus clinic organ trafficking. Beyond the initial analysis of both events, violations with regards to the Code of Ethics will be examined, along with a look at the investigations conducted by the authorities. The conclusion reached was that it was a very brutal crime, since. Various recommendations such as increasing the number of hospital checks are suggested to avoid similar catastrophes from re-occurring.

This is an hour long documentary that delves into organ trafficking around the world. The film shows multiple personal stories from a variety of countries to demonstrate how large of an epidemic over the world. This

such a level that more than 10,000 black market operations involving purchased human organs takes place annually. Organ trafficking is the illegal practice of taking someone’s organs in an unethical way. With the health of many people declining, it is no surprise that around the world there is a growing demand. The demand for organs is unsustainable, so some people feel they must resort to other methods, like buying an organ from the black market.

The delegate of Russia believes even though some nations like Russia are trying to get rid of organ trafficking, without the uncompromising effort of the other developed nations to ban importing trafficked organs within their own countries, it will be impossible to end this injustice. Developed countries must organize a system that would encourage an increase in legal organ donors, such as the opt-out system which has been successfully introduced in several countries, or reconsider and deregulate the present system on the basis of WHO guidelines. At the same time, laws must be organized to punish illegal trafficking groups in order to protect poor ‘donors’ from being lured into the organ trade.