[Avodah] Is there any issur here al pi halacha? - New York man pleads guilty to selling Israeli human organs

Moshe Y. Gluck mgluck at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 18:12:23 PDT 2011


R' Joseph Kaplan:
> Isn't there another downside (assuming full consent, no coercion
> etc. which is an assumption that very well might not be justified); i.e.,
> that rich people whose condition is not as serious as that of poor people
> will live and the poor people will die?

Yes. And this is different from every other illness, exactly how? Someone
who can afford the Mayo Clinic will get better care than someone who comes
to the emergency room at 3 AM. That's the way the world is. And every
attempt to change that has failed.

KT,
MYG




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