Generally speaking, organ harvesting occurs due to the increased demand for organ transplants and lack of willing donors to meet the needs.
Each precious soul forced or coerced into this evil is a victim and should be treated as such.
The world over, each story is different yet eerily similar (in brief):
- Most often, organ trafficking is motivated by desperation.
- In 2008, Scheper-Hughes told The Associated Press, “Most victims of kidney trafficking are coerced by need, not by physical force.” She cited an instance in Brazil of people competing to be selected as organ donors by stuffing $10 bills in a broker’s pocket.
- The WHO stated that some individuals are paid just $1,000 for an organ like a kidney.
- But there are documented instances of force as well. A man in India was accused of taking organs from hundreds of individuals by force, and sometimes at gunpoint.
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