Organ Trafficking : A Dangerous Epidemic

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

There are 112 thousand people on the organ transplant list and 22 people die every day because they cannot find a match ("Organ Donation Statistics", 2017). In 1984, under the National Organ Transplant Act, America outlawed the buying and selling of organs. If caught selling organs illegally, those involved shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both (Prohibition of Organ Purchases, 2011). With organizations like Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of aborted fetuses, the compensation of organs has been compared to prostitution. (Gebelhoff, 2015). If organ donors begin being compensated for their gifts of life, the Black Market organ trafficking will increase due to supply and demand of organs which in return creates a higher victim rate related to the black market. Offering money for organs can be viewed as an attempt to coerce economically disadvantaged Americans to participate in organ donation even though these groups of people have been shown to be less likely to be candidates, monetary incentives for organs could be characterized as exploitation (National Kidney Foundation, 2003). The Compensation of organ donation is unethical due to the acts by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, black market increases along with acts of cruelty towards unexpecting victims, and the increase in costs to perform the transplants.

Sex trafficking is a form of human trafficking that has been a worldwide issue since ancient times, but regularly forgotten, due to it being almost an impossible to fix dilemma. Since the dawn of mankind sexual exploitation and slavery has been occurring, dating back to ancient times. Various forms of trafficking occur including, sexual slavery where victims are forced into performing sexual actions including prostitution and pornography. Another form of human trafficking is slavery where the victim is forced into unpaid work which they undertake harsh life threatening conditions. Another form of human trafficking is the trafficking of human tissue, cells, and organs. This is where humans are illegally stripped of their organs,especially kidneys. Due to countries long list of needed transplants, criminals take that opportunity to make quick money by stealing humans and performing dangerous operations to sell the victim 's organs. The thing all trafficking groups have in common is their lust for fast easy money. By using humans to sell sex,work, and organs these pimps can accomplish these goals with little

It is an indisputable fact that under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, there is a larger demand for organs than there is available supply. As a result, people in need of kidney or liver transplants die every year while waiting. Under the current system, the only way to receive an organ transplant is either by having a family member selflessly volunteer to donate theirs, or by being put on a waiting list to receive an organ from the recently deceased. To combat this lack of supply, some in need of transplants desperately turn to the black market, paying enormous sums of money for organs that were more than likely taken illegally. Others die waiting for a transplant that was never realistically going to happen in time. In essence, the gap between supply and demand for organs is causing both a loss in quantity and quality of lives. However, changing policy to allow payments to organ donors would drastically reduce this gap, therefore decreasing wait time for organs and saving lives. The crucial step that must be taken to save these lives is to repeal the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 which prohibits the sale of organs.

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Every ten minutes a new person is added to the waiting list for organ transplants. With only three in one thousand people dying in a way that allows for organ donation, twenty-two people die each day waiting for a transplant. Almost all U.S. adults support organ donation, but less than half are actually signed up as organ donors (Organ Donation Statistics). Currently, the people desperate for organs or money turning to illegal hospitals and black-markets for buying and selling organs. Though the members of organ trafficking are rarely exposed and therefore the size of the problem is unknown, something has to be done for the people in need of organs now. The near future should hold a piece of health care technology that creates organs, combatting the unfortunate statistics of organ donations and the organized crime of trafficking organs.

Illegal organ sales are on the rise because of the worldwide organ shortage. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that there are over one hundred and nineteen thousand men, women, and children currently waiting on the transplant list, and twenty-two of them die each day waiting for a transplant (Organ, 2015). Many individuals are utilizing the black market as a means to receive an organ for themselves or a loved one because they feel it is the only option. Organ sales should be legal because of the increasing number of illegal activities surrounding the process; transplants will be done in a safe and managed environment, the poor will not be exploited by black market criminal activity, and the number of organs available will

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.

In the US recently the issue of human organ trafficking has become a bigger and bigger problem. When people hear that human organs are being bought and sold on the black market, they think that kind of thing only happens in third world countries, but it is quickly becoming one of America's biggest issues. People spend years of their lives on the transplant list waiting for a life saving operation, and they think that if they just buy whatever they need, it will solve all their problems. What most people don’t understand is how corrupt and dangerous organ trafficking is. The sale of human organs either facilitated through a doctor or on the

Trafficking of organs of human beings is taking place on a daily basis. Individuals at the mercy of organized crime groups are experiencing brutal tactics in the forms of “incarceration, rape, torture and sexual enslavement" (UNRIC, 2014) in order to harvest their organs to meet the supply of organs needed for brokers to sell through an organized nexus of crime (UNRIC, 2014). If the process of legalizing organ sales was initiated and the organ trade had the opportunity to be regulated, the heinous treatment of poor organ donors may cease to exit. The primary goal of regulating the sale of organs internationally would be" to get organized crime out of it, get fair prices and safer practices for donors and safer medical care for recipients"(Leslie,

In 1954, the world’s first successful kidney transplant between two live people took place. 30 years later, kidney transplantation was now common and acceptably safe, and in 1984, the sale of organs was banned through the National Organ Transplant Act, meaning any organ used may only be through donation. Under this act, however, only one person has ever be prosecuted for the brokering illegal organs. In the years since, illegal organ trafficking has sprung up in India, China, the US, Brazil, and South Africa with little to no real evidence of an end to the injustice it causes.

Are you aware that there has been numerous unfortunate networks of brokers and hospitals that have been involved in illegal organ trade worldwide? According to “Organ Donation And Transplant Statistics,” an estimate of 123,000 patients are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant and only 28,000 patients received an organ each year. Not to mention, the amount of people added on the list which is approximated to 3,000 per month. Now, the number of organ sellers are increasing in black markets, an illegal traffic and trade. Most of these sellers are poor which gives them an opportunity to gain money. For this reason, it has caused a dispute of whether or not organ trade should be allowed. There are those that believe that organ trade

For my human rights and social justice issue I will be focusing on the issue, Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking is the act of illegally sending a human from one place/country to another for either forced labor, women, and children exploitation, the removal of organs and other body parts and sexual exploitation. My group thought it would be a great idea to focus on different aspects of human trafficking to prevent similar work and to have a closer understanding of a topic we want to explore. I will be focusing on organ trafficking. Organ Trafficking is the illegal act of removing and selling organs or body parts such as the pancreas, liver skin, eyes, heart, lungs and the most popular being a kidney. This is a serious issue that occurs in

In underdeveloped countries, an individual would get financially cheated if they would willingly sell their organ to traffickers. This was apparent in an article written by Asif Efrat for the Washington Post. The traffickers would convince an individual that is in a state of poverty to sell an organ for money and a better future. But these traffickers would overstep or betray the individual’s trust by taking more organs than intended or giving less money. Traffickers even target children who come from poor backgrounds or have disabilities. For example, there was a case where a boy had all of his organs replaced with newspaper. “...in America, the dizzying case of Kendrick Johnson. His death was deemed a freak accident in the school gym — they

Organ Trafficking has been an underlying pandemic for years and years now; not only affected a nation but several nations. It isn’t the most pleasant topic, but it is a problem of paramount importance that we as a human race should be very perturbed about. All of these “Big Wig” Aristocratic Americans not ready to meet their fate willingly send innocent people to their death without any remorse just to save their miserable life. The activist have tried to warn the public through public sittings, documentaries, and other forms of social media, but the majority shy way from it in disbelief as if the act is completed preposterous. They kill purposely but to the public eye try to make it seem accidental, pointless or some regular form of violence that results in death. Well its not, and with no action being taken against this they will only effortlessly take more lives without being reprimanded for their crimes.