Here is a moral nightmare, walk into examination room with a patient recently implanted with a kidney acquired from China's death row, where prisoners are killed occasionally for minor offenses, and their organs taken.
This frightful practice has been documented among ethnic Chinese communities throughout Asia, but so far all attempts to prove that people were leaving U.S. soil to buy organs from China's massive death row has failed. .
Many patients are very forward and honest about it, that they bought an organ taken from an executed convict for about $10,000," "Most of the patients are delighted to be off of dialysis, and none has seemed particularly unsettled regarding the source of the organs.
There's no telling how many kidney buyers returning to the U.S. have gone for follow-up care at a less than adequate institution or stayed within covert medical channels recommended by their brokers. .
Transplants are gifts that influence life from death, which close the door for one person while opening the future for another. But the outright sale of organs is detestable to nearly all surgeons in the field. Selling organs is a felony under a 1984 federal law that was confronted by then senator Al Gore, and is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000. Live or executed prisoners in the U.S. are forbidden to donate an organ, even for free, except to family members under special circumstances. .
In China, human rights activists say, citizens have been executed for nonviolent offenses like taking bribes, credit card theft, small-scale tax evasion, and stealing truckloads of vegetables. Political deserter's have also been sentenced to death. Chinese embassy officials did not respond to requests for comment, but in the past the government has denied promoting the profit for organ trade. .
Executions in China have surged to 400 in April alone as the Communist government conducts another of its periodic "strike hard" crackdowns on crime.
