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Tag Archives: organ selling
Rewarding Biological Colonialism
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We shouldn’t always get what we want — particularly when it comes at the cost of exploiting the world’s destitute or taking advantage of despotic circumstances to benefit personally. But … Continue reading
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Deadly Potential of Live Organ Donation Should Preclude Market Approach
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Some people believe that all of us have an obligation to participate in live organ donation, that is, giving one of our two kidneys or a lobe of liver. While … Continue reading
Prisoners Should Not be Sources of Organs
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Art Caplan has a good article in the current American Journal of Bioethics about using prisoners as sources of organs. He discusses both whether organ donation and execution should be … Continue reading
Biological Colonialism: Organ Trafficking Trial Shows Need to Outlaw Organ Buying
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Seven Kosovars are being tried for the odious crime of organ trafficking. The allegations vividly depict how the destitute are exploited at all levels of this odious form of oppression. … Continue reading
Biological Colonialism: Bioethicists Urge Science Boycott of China Over Organ Killings
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Penn bioethicist Art Caplan and I have had some vocal disagreements over the years, but we tend to think very similarly about organ transplant issues. Now Art and four other … Continue reading
Biological Colonialism: Time to Get Judgmental About Organ Buyers
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When will enough, finally, be enough. Not only are organs now being sold by desperate people in destitute countries — to the point that some governments have been forced to … Continue reading
Biological Colonialism: Kidney Traffickers Busted
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Awful. Awful. Awful. Bangladesh has busted a kidney trafficking gang. From the Herald Sun story: Three people were arrested on Sunday in the remote Kalai area, 300 kilometres northwest of … Continue reading
Sell Your Kidney to Pay for School
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This makes Shylock’s pound of flesh seem like a bargain. A Scot professor (of course!) has urged that university students burdened by tuition debt be allowed to sell one of … Continue reading
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Worst of East Meets West: Teenager Sells Kidney for I-Pad
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC People sell organs in China. In the West, people occasionally die if they get between crazed store customers and an electronics sale. These two darknesses have conjoined in an awful … Continue reading
Biological Colonialism: Organ Tourism Must Be Outlawed Internationally
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The living human bodies of the poor are increasingly looked upon by the rich and powerful as resources ripe for the mining. As regular readers know: Ounce for ounce, human … Continue reading