ABC 33/40 News has obtained court documents revealing another case of a deceased Alabama inmate’s body found missing organs. The body of Charles Edward Singleton was returned to his family missing all organs including his brain.
Legal organ trafficking, because why the fuck not?
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Well, Buck v. Bell was never overturned, so the US government still has the right to sterilize citizens. So I’m not sure this is much of a leap.
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Respect the dead but not the living until we make them dead.
Their argument is that the harvesting WAS with consent
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There’s also some Black Mirror-esque things they could be trying.
Shit, I watched a Polish movie with exactly this theme
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2627146/
Highly recommend
I’m looking forward to Alabama’s argument that a woman doesn’t have a right to control her fetus, therefor an inmate doesn’t have a right to control their organs.
Lot of profit in selling body parts
The family wasn’t convicted of a crime. Even if they were, this is not how we punish or rehabilitate people.
Well they weren’t gonna eat the organs. Can’t let that all go to waste.
Sweet home Alabama
What the fuck
Why take the brain? That can’t be trafficked.
Perhaps as an anatomical specimen for study? There’s a market for that. It’s usually where someone ends up when they legitimately donate their body to ‘science’.
I saw they found the brain:
Nah that’s Abby Normal. Says it right on the label.
I read it as the warning is directed at Abby.
Do not use this brain, ABBY
That little shit.
Legitimate uses of brains often aren’t relying on the black market though.
I suspect that somebody sold it to an obscura collector, film production, or pervert.
I think you are blissfully unaware of the current scope of clinical trial fraud in the US right now.
That is not a joke. There is so much cash changing hands that “medical” practices are getting into patient care just to be able to enroll them in lucrative trials – and when the studies are double or quadruple blinded, there may not even be any real patients at all.
And if you do happen to be aware of just how widespread clinical trial fraud is, don’t forget about where the first study cadavers came from, purchased by very respectable schools of higher education. So many that throughout the 19th century graves had all manner of anti-theft devices, watchmen, and story material for Edgar Allan Poe.
Maybe someone did sell these organs to a private collector; even Harvard got caught selling parts of parts last year. But it’s just as likely to be a seemingly “legit” organization as not, one with targets to meet and not able to recruit volunteers (or volunteers with the correct anomalies) in enough numbers to meet their needs.
EDITED TO ADD: I only linked one part, but this is an eight-parts series by Reuters, and an excellent read for anyone who really wants to understand how widespread this is (may I suggest not reading it anywhere near bedtime):
Do you know how someone goes about getting set up to donate their body to science? I want that done with my body, but have no idea how to get it set up and put in a will.
Sorry, no, I am not a lawyer. But it should be pretty simple, like just putting a directive to that effect in a will, I guess.
They have to feed the zombies in administration something
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So it’s Squid Game without the cash prize, got it.
Looks like America is starting to follow China’s lead with regards to organ harvesting…
Did they at least ask before dismembering then?
“May we have your liver?”
“Might as well throw in the intestines, liver, brain and pancreas while you’re at it”
Once again: prisons in the USA south are fucked. Worst in America. The brutality of christian states is horrifying.
