Unauthorized organ transplantations

Organ harvesting is the organized collection of human organs without consent, sometimes illegally, for subsequent transplantation or other therapeutic use. Criminals, children, tourists and stillborn or aborted babies are notable victims.

1. Unauthorized practice

1. Theft of internal organs
2. Recycling human placental tissue

1. Trafficking in children for medical exploitation

1. Lack of human organs for transplantation
2. Abusive trade in human organs

1. Unsustainable harvesting rates

1. Undertaking organ transplants
2. Providing organ bank
3. Donating body to science
4. Developing artificial organs