| Re: Organleggers! (Larry Niven)
It's perfectly true, organleggers are alive and well and living in China, and raiding your local funeral home. Actually China combines parts of Niven's "organ bank" executions and organleggers. Executed criminals there have organs removed, without permission from the family, and some (many) are sold on the black market. I don't know if anyone has been executed on trumped-up charges just so his/her organs could be harvested, but if corruption is that widespread in selling organs on the black market, then it wouldn't surprise me.
Personally I have no moral qualms about a clone of me being created for organ transplants, so long as they can figure out how to grow one without a brain. If the clone has a brain, well then it-- or rather, he-- has just as much right to live a full life as I do. |