China Bans Human Organ Trafficking

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China Bans Human Organ Trafficking

April 12, 2007 | ISSUE 43•15

Amid allegations that they are harvesting the organs of executed prisoners, China is banning the sale of human organs starting May 1. What do you think?

So long as my new pancreas is already in the mail, this doesn't affect me in the least.

Raymond Shand
Copy Editor
This ban shows a shocking disregard for those of us who, having laid waste to our own bodies, wish to construct an entirely new one.

Christopher Lincoln
Postal Clerk
Tell that to the thousands of people who already became murderers after receiving a killer's organ.

Jessica Baillor
Chemist

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