Thursday, January 08, 2009

Nice kidneys, can I touch them?

I'm sure some of you have heard about this, where a man is trying to get his divorcing wife to settle $1.5 million for a kidney he donated to her a few years ago.

I see a different angle on this. I know that in China and other shady places around the globe, people can go to sleep one day, and wake up the next in a bathtub with a few of their organs removed, while certain people collect the profits. What I think this may lead to is Chinese (or other place) mail-order brides, who come over to the United States at the behest of some really rich single person in need of an organ, donate it to that person, and then collect their fee in the divorce through a big hush-hush settlement. Scary future...

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