Kidney-Selling Rabbi Busted; Should it be Legal to Sell Organs?

(News) Kidney-Selling Rabbi Busted; Should it be Legal to Sell Organs?

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  • darkangel
    NO, cause profiting brings in criminals

    Here's more info from wiki, this Rabbi uses guns to enforce!
    Making it a business attracts people like these, who are
    criminals, pretending to be pious citizens.

    Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn was alleged to have been conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000.[1] According to the complaint, Rosenbaum had said that he had been involved in the illegal sale of kidneys for 10 years. Acting US Attorney Ralph Marra said "His business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he would turn around and sell for $160,000". Anthropologist and organ trade expert Nancy Scheper-Hughes claimed that she had informed the FBI that Rosenbaum was "a major figure" in international organ smuggling 7 years ago, and that many of Rosenbaum's donors had come from Eastern Europe. She also heard reports that Rosenbaum held donors at gunpoint to ensure they donated their organs.

    - darkangelUS July 26, 2009 11:37PM

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