Legal and Illegal Harvesting of Organs

June 29, 2010


Organ harvesting is one of the special practices in the industry of medicine. This is a practice where the doctors remove the vital organs of a patient for future use especially in transplants. Organ harvesting is a legal practice unless the organs are taken without the permission of the patient who owns it or when it is taken out in an illegal manner.

Organ harvesting is legal when the doctors have the right to take out the organs. This means that the owner of the organs do not deny organ donations. They make sure that all the legal papers are signed and that the organs are taken out when the patient is declared to be brain dead or have no chance of survival. In other ways, there are illegal activities surrounding organ harvesting. There are syndicates around the world who are making lots of money selling human organs taken out in an illegal manner. This means that they either kill a person just to take his organs or they steal from hospitals and other organ banks and then sell it at a very high price to people who desperately need these vital organs for transplant.

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