Sunday, February 03, 2008
Kidney Thefts in India
Seems a ring of docs and others have been kidnapping poor Indian people and forcibly taking a kidney from them. The story is in AP, here. We've heard similar stories from China, where there are rumors of prisoners being used as organ donors.
Terrible stories. I guess I have a little caution to inject. While the stories may be true, how big a moral leap is it from forcible kidnapping and surgery to just murdering the poor guy and getting two kidneys and a heart? I wonder if that is going on, triple the profits? And if it is OK to kidnap someone and do violence to them, removing organs, how long until they decide it is just cleaner to take this homeless person and have them disappear? You know, no witnesses...
Terrible stories. I guess I have a little caution to inject. While the stories may be true, how big a moral leap is it from forcible kidnapping and surgery to just murdering the poor guy and getting two kidneys and a heart? I wonder if that is going on, triple the profits? And if it is OK to kidnap someone and do violence to them, removing organs, how long until they decide it is just cleaner to take this homeless person and have them disappear? You know, no witnesses...
