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I wrote a post titled “Money can buy anything if you have enough of it” where I talked about the illegal Black Market for organs. I made a reference to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who was reported to have just had a kidney transplant. While I had no knowledge that Mr. Jobs had purchased a kidney, and I still don’t, I speculated that with enough money you can indeed buy one.
I was immediately chastised by people who said that I was one of those “irresponsible bloggers” who make statements with nothing to back them up. They said it was virtually impossible to buy an organ and that even though I had referenced two other “real news articles” that I had watched the movie “Coma” one too many times. For you young heads, the premise of the movie is that relatively healthy people wind up in comas after minor surgeries. A suspicious doctor finds out that the coma patients are being used as organ donors.
This past week, over 44 people were arrested in New Jersey for corruption. This is not news. New Jersey has been corrupt for decades. What is news is that most of the people arrested were either in local or state politics and were well known and respected Rabbis! But it doesn’t end there. The real story is that many of the Rabbis involved in this scandal were involved with Black Market organ sales!
One of the Rabbis, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, admitted to “having done this many times” in the last ten years. And the amount for this “deal?” A measly $160,000.00! And guess how much money the donor received? A whopping $10,000.00!!! You read it correctly. The person who gave up their organ only received $10,000.00 of the reported $160,000.00 that was collected!
That money has corrupted supposed religious people also isn’t new. That has been going on since the beginning of religion. The sad thing is that many of those people didn’t feel like they were doing anything wrong. That profiting from both sides, the person who needs an organ and the person desperate for money, was OK. And as I said in that earlier post, and have been proven to be CORRECT, there is a market, and this is occurring, whether we admit it or not!
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As the mother of a son who has recently gone into kidney failure and seeing the pain and suffering he is going through I would sell my house and soul to get him a kidney. This sounds bad coming from a nurse but when it’s your love one your view changes. Too many people don’t donate their organs so people needing them have to wait too long to get an the needed organ.
The above acts are just part of the time. People preying on people in need. I think if someone wants to be compensated for an organ they should be allowed the money. All of the money.
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