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How The Wealthy Skirt The Organ Waitlist
You start feeling severe abdominal pain and swelling. Soon you experience fatigue, nausea, and disorientation. You go to the doctor to ask if anything is wrong. The doctor runs tests and gives you a harrowing diagnosis: your liver is failing and you need a new one as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she tells you that…
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Bodies on the Red Market: Organ Trafficking as a Human Rights Concern
BY RAHMI ELAHJJI One day while playing outside in China’s north-central Shanxin province, six-year-old Xiao Binbin was abducted from the front of his house and taken to a field outside of town where his eyes were harvested. Xiao’s story is not uncommon for people living in developing countries, yet the issue of organ harvesting is…
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