March 21, 2006
Paging Larry Niven, White Courtesy Phone Please

I'm actually surprised it's taken this long:

Hundreds of well-off Japanese and other nationals are turning to China's burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been harvested from executed prisoners and sold to hospitals.

In a perfect world, where people are rational and Democrats actually make sense, I have no particular problem with this. Unfortunately, since we don't live in a perfect world, I'm afraid this has to go. The potential for corruption around this in a relatively stable law-and-order place like the US is bad enough. In China? Fuggedaboutit.

Posted by scott at March 21, 2006 01:24 PM

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