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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Body Trafficking in China: The Good and Bad of New Corpse Laws  CHINA is about to ban the trade and commercial use of corpses that has drawn enormous International criticism. August 1st is your deadline to buy them a plane ticket or donate them to a medical school. This is good news to human rights groups that have long accused China of using the parts of executed prisoners to make up the shortage in available organs mainly due to the fact that the Chinese are superstitious about donations and prefer to pass on corpus intactus. There is a good and bad side to the news: The bar is against the use of donated bodies except for medical research and the new law requires their burial once the research is done. I am hoping that those attached to anything new are exempt from the rules. "No organization or individual is allowed to accept body donations except medical institutes, medical schools, medical research institutes and forensic research institutes," Xinhua news agency said. And they went on to say that transport of bodies into and out of China for interment would require approval from civil affairs departments, customs and inspection and quarantine authorities. Coordinating three government agencies might make it easier to invest in an expat cemetery/crematorium. The big problem may come when organs, as a result of the ban, become even harder to obtain: About two million Chinese need transplants each year, but only 20,000 receive them. This could actually spur more black market harvesting. If it was a problem before I can only see it worsening. Bernie would not last the weekend here, they would sell him. And while this might be good news for the families of prisoners and prisoner rights groups, the prisoners are not celebrating: Prisoners here, more than in any other country, are still scheduled for execution. China Organ Trafficking Asia Kidney Transplants Cancer Organ Donations Transplants Lonnie Hodge Human Organ Sales Organ Transplants Cartoons Death Penalty Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Lonnie at 8:01 AM |
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