Globally organ-trafficking has been a problem but now when the U.S. is involved it really hit home. A man named Levy Itzhak Rosenbaum from Brooklyn New York was convicted this past Thursday for organ-trafficking black market kidneys. He is the first person in the U.S. to be convicted of organ trafficking. On one side of his plea he was said to have saved lives but the prosecution states that he could’ve potentially taken lives because of his dangerous actions. All of the surgeries that took place were done in American hospitals and were performed by experienced surgeons, but was still considered to be illegal. He would pay Israelis a certain amount to give up a kidney and he’d charge Americans in desperate needs of organs triple that amount. This case opened up a new debate on whether organ trafficking should be legalized or not. Numerous amounts of people are affected by organ trafficking worldwide, and it will be hard to stop it because it has turned into a global market. For example with the organ theft’s that occurred in Kosovo after the Kosovo War in 1999, resulted in the killing of 300 ethnic Serbs. People are not only being put at risk for bad health conditions but they are also being murder for the distribution of human organs. For many years incidents involving the distribution of black marketed organs have went unknown. In November 2010, Israelis and South Africans were caught by the police for trafficking organs through Netcare. Organ traffickers typically put large prices on organs because they know those in desperate need will pay whatever. Organ trafficking has been considered to be illegal since 1984.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/10/27/2011-10-27_brooklyn_blackmarket_kidney_broker_pleads_guilty_to_selling_israeli_organs_to_de.html
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