Organ Trafficking

There are a lot of people in this world that are going through organ failure. The National Kidney Foundation even found, “Every fourteen minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant list”. Statistically speaking, that is a great deal of people in need of a vital organ. The author Joanna MacKay talks about the need for organ donations in her article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”. MacKay disputes her case briefly when stating her thesis in the first paragraph. She gives the audience her opinion on how the selling of organs should be built to become legal. Throughout the text she touches on the black market selling of kidneys. She also incorporates how other third world countries have allowed this practice of organ sales. The article includes her insight on what would happen if organ sales would be legalized and how it would be regulated.

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

The desperation that rose as a result of the human organ shortage crisis led to the creation of an entire new business in the black market: transplant tourism. A similar term, called medical tourism, is defined as “the travel of residents of one country to another country for treatment” (Cohen, 2013). Like medical tourism, transplant tourism involves traveling as well, but with the motive of purchasing organs for transplant (Cohen, 2013). It is currently illegal in all countries—besides Iran, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia—to exchange human organs for money. Yet this particular black market still happens to thrive in many destination countries due to the government’s failure to monitor the issue or the absence of resources to detect its general occurrence. The parties involved in this business consist of three different categories: sellers, recipients, and brokers. The majority of sellers come from the poorest parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. The recipients come from the more affluent countries like the Middle East, south Asia, Europe, and North America. The brokers are the people running this particular black market and they reside in the countries where the illegal transplants occur: Istanbul, Cesenau, Moldova, Tel Aviv, and Manila—just to name a few (Cohen,

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

India, China and Indonesia are just a few of the countries with documented cases. One would ask, why would someone want to traffic organs? The answer is simple, the demand for organs is extremely high. There are hundreds of thousandths of men, women and children that are or organ donor lists areound the world. Desperate times call for desperate measures and people are willing to pay top dollar or these organs, especially if it means they can bypass that list altogether. Trafficking for organs is actually broken down into three categories. There are instances where the victim is forced or tricked into giving up and organ. There are also cases where the person may be treated for an ailment, whether true or not, and unbeknownst to them and organ is removed. And lastly, the victim may have agreed to give an organ for payment but the end result is them giving up an organ and not being compensated. Groups targeted are mainly homeless and illiterate persons that are vulnerable. Kidneys and livers are amongst the most commonly sought after organs but any organ can be subject to illegal removal and trade. In 2013, a Georgia teen died at school and his death was quickly assumed to be an accident by the local authorities. The teen’s parents however, we not convinced. After the young man’s body was exhumed and an autopsy performed, it was found that his body had been stuffed with newspaper. The boy’s brain, heart and lungs had all been removed and his death was actually caused by blunt force trauma. The reality of organ trafficking is not only scary but often times

Organ trafficking is an illegal act that occurs globally. Traffickers are taking organs out of people using unhealthy medical procedures that cause serious health problems in many people in countries all over the world. Money is a strict motivation that keeps this black market running and increasing due to the disproportionate ratio of organs needed to survive, and organs available to transplant. There are many arguments revolving around the issue of organ donation in terms of ethics, limiting the ways people can donate. There is a very long process one would have to go through if considering donation, including a psychological examination in addition to the first part of the process to determine if the organ from the donor is a match for the recipient. Selling organs for profit is considered unethical as society views organ transplantation as an act that should be an altruistic donation, meaning that donations should be done without profit. Although there are laws restricting the act of organ trafficking, it is a growing industry because people do not understand the gravity of the damage being caused to targeted individuals and the community. In order to make a global change to put an end organ trafficking, people unaware of the activity should be educated of the act and the negative consequences it can have on multiple levels of the community. Organ trafficking can hurt an individual physically, mentally and financially

This paper introduces the consequences of allowing a free market for human organs and how it will help alleviate the shortage for such items, which has arisen a social problem worldwide, giving entry to black markets. A description of the market for living organ donors and cadaveric organs can be found below along with the advantages, disadvantages, and ethical issues these markets arise in modern society. This paper also discusses how the shortage of human organs has created a black market for these items and the consequences it has in our society.

Every teenager wants to own the newest iPhone or iPad but to save up for those working at the local McDonald’s it would take some time. But in China, you can get it just by selling a kidney. In face according to a BBC news article dated April 6, 2012 five people were arrested for convincing a teenager to sell his kidney in an online chat room for the equivalent of $3,000. The teenager is now suffering from kidney failure, and just for a couple of new toys. The New York Times states on June 29, 2012 that only 10% of the global needs for organ transplantation are being met. The UK Telegraph of May 28, 2012 states that experts are saying that a rise in diabetes and other diseases has led to the

“While the importance of the moral issues raised by organ sales should not be downplayed there is a need for a more nuanced account of the mechanisms of organ trading, linking the emergence of the organ trade to wider political, cultural and socioeconomic factors” (Columb, 2015, P. 23). “A very distinctive style of argument against organ sale appeals to the supposed value of altruism” (Wilkinson, 2016). These arguments emerge in various distinctive structures, yet a substantial portion of them have the accompanying fundamental structure: acts of altruism something to be thankful for, either inherently, or considering its beneficial outcomes (or both), and by allowing and additionally permitting organ sales would reduce the measure of charitableness on the planet. A financial incentive only furthermore takes away from the choice of voluntariness and the altruism of the organ and organ tissue.

October 2011 marks the first proven case of black market organ trafficking in the United States. Levy Izhak, a New Yorker, pled guilty in federal court for illegally expediting kidney transplants. His lawyer claimed, “the transplants were successful and the donors and recipients are now leading full and healthy lives” because of the organ donation and receiving the transplant. Contradicting this principle is that the transaction of blood, semen and ovarian eggs are legal however it is illegal to sell organs in the United States.

Most of society has viewed organ transplants to be beneficial but many fail to realize the truth behind this process. Organ transplantation is the surgical removal of an organ from one individual to another whose organ is ineffective. While considered to be a “live saving” process, many risks and potential dangers can result from this process leading to possible diseases and perhaps death. However, this is the least of concerns for the organ transplant industry. The story behind organ trafficking sparks the most significance for many patients and donors. According to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, “...organ trafficking is placed under the definition of human trafficking” (Source 2). The ongoing dispute about organs has left many people questioning the ethical concerns and issues that have developed from this debate. While the process of organ donation remains acceptable, the idea of paid organ “donation” has proven to outweigh the benefits through many factors. Treatments have proven that medical bills are not the most desirable when it comes to money, but with paid organ transplants and illegal trade, many patients are conflicted with gathering the money needed to pay off these

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

Human organ trafficking is what we hear about all the time. By hook or by crook, it appears we 've gone calloused and look at it as anything so detached from our reality. Nonetheless, somewhere in the market, real persons are suffering and are going through this designated difficulty.

"Organ trafficking entails the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, of a position of vulnerability, of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation by the

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.