Comments on: “The Terrible Toll of the Kidney Shortage” https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/the-terrible-toll-of-the-kidney-shortage/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: PaulB https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/the-terrible-toll-of-the-kidney-shortage/comment-page-1/#comment-353927 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:46:47 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73167#comment-353927 Hugo, your comments tell us more about you than about people in other countries. The two countries I’m familiar with that have compensation for kidneys are those centers of atheism, Iran and the Philippines. They both do large numbers of kidney transplant operations for foreigners.

]]> By: Hugo S. Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/the-terrible-toll-of-the-kidney-shortage/comment-page-1/#comment-353925 Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:40:50 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73167#comment-353925 Back in the Cold War, the KGB and other progressives whispered that Americans were kidnaping Third World children to butcher them for transplant parts– sometimes with deadly results for random American visitors.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-02-mn-41338-story.html

I am doubtful whether we want to get too far ahead of the international consensus on this issue. The Chinese are unlikely to make such accusations (“People who live in glass houses…”), but Islamists and extreme Leftists might have fewer scruples.

I hope for technology to generate replacement organs in laboratories. The Chinese may end up as pioneers in this field, since they have fewer religious fanatics and fewer Luddites.

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