Police in Italy broke up a plan to sell babies for their organs.
ITALIAN police have arrested four Ukrainians believed to be part of an international crime ring in which women gave birth to babies in order to sell their organs.In co-ordinated raids in two Italian cities, they arrested a man and three women. One was the mother of a baby born just days ago. The gang had attempted to sell the baby to undercover officers for 50,000 (£35,844).
Obciously, selling a baby for it's organs is unthinkable. However, doing the same to a fetus is just good science. All these guys had to do was get the doctor to perform a D&E aka 'partial birth abortion', then harvest the organs.
Then everything would have been cool.
Oh, there's the money issue; we're still a little parochial when it comes to profiting from, shall we say, morally questionable activities. It seems that those acts are only OK if we don't profit from them.
After all, profit is the real evil, right?
As well as the four arrests, police said they were investigating several Italians who had expressed interest in buying the baby for its organs and said they believed other babies may already have been sold by the gang.
"Already been sold..."
The three women said they came to Italy originally to work as prostitutes. Police said the women appeared to have entered the scheme voluntarily.
I'm speechless...
Posted by Rich at May 13, 2003 11:45 AM | TrackBack