The Rumor on Adopting Children for Their Organs: A Compelling Reason to Address a Thriving Organ Black Market and the Prevalence of Children Being Trafficked into Adoption

Dorothy Franks, a 3L student at Suffolk Law, has a provocatively titled article in the latest issue of the Journal of Health & Biomedical Law (14:169): "The Rumor on Adopting Children for Their Organs: A Compelling Reason to Address a Thriving Organ Black Market and the Prevalence of Children Being Trafficked into Adoption." Here is the opening paragraph: "From Latin America, across to Europe, down to Africa, and up through Asia, there have been murmurings of a rumor that children adopted to Western countries are not going to new, loving homes. Instead, children are adopted so that their healthy organs may be harvested and transplanted into the new family's sick biological child. Although there is significant trafficking of children for profitable adoption and impoverished adults selling organs on the black market, the rumor that children are adopted for their organs (“the adoption organ rumor” or “the rumor”) has yet to be…

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