It Looks Like Ukrainian Leaders Don't Want to Know the Truth About Infant Harvesting Scandal
This isn't good: Irina Bogomolova, the head investigator seeking to track down whether newborn infants were really killed and harvested for their stem cells and organs, was removed from the case after demanding that the investigation be expanded.
The Telegraph reported her as saying: "A trade in stem cells exists here... I suspect there is a lot of bribery going on, right up to highest levels. Pregnant women, especially from rural areas, are very vulnerable targets as they will obviously believe whatever the doctors tell them. It's easy to take their babies from them and tell them they died or were born dead due to complications."
Obviously this has many profound human rights implications. If the UN is capable, it needs to begin to gear up an inquiry. And while they are at it, why not investigate the issue of human organ selling worldwide, including whether China kills Falun Gong for their organs?
Never mind: That would require action and true concern for the intrinsic value of all human life and not just talk. What was I thinking?
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 10:06 AM
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5 Comments:
In all seriousness, what would happen if they told the women they were stealing their live babies? I mean, it sounds almost like the rule of law is breaking down altogether in this area and like the women are helpless.
It's enough to make me unsay all the hard things I've previously said about the over-litigiousness of American society in the medical sphere. Nothing like knowing you can sue for malpractice to give you a feeling of empowerment over doctors who want to take your baby and dismember him for his bone marrow!!
Sheesh.
I agree wholehartedly with this post (for once), but that said, I think it speaks to greater issue of the role of the international community and overlapping concerns of political rights and transparency.
China is a cesspool of human rights, but they have nukes, the largest army in the world, and an unfavorable trade balance with the US. As much I'd love to clean up their human rights record, I doubt anything will happen until their government is more flexible and democratic (I know, a very Western perspective as they probably don't think there is a problem at all if they're only abusing their dissidents).
The Ukraine has many other problems, say the influence of the mafia and criminal subculture. Until that's reigned in, in might be a bioethical anarchy in many ways.
Or to know that people who snatch or kill your baby will go to jail.
Royale hits it on the head.
Reporting on the Ukraine's abuses I am sure helps some. The hospital in Kharkev I am sure does not like to be the subject of international attention and I imagine that helps pressure them to be on betttr behavior. If good men like Wesley Smith failed to do the minimum of making this sort of thing known I am sure such evils would flourish more. But I agree that the Ukraine has a lot of problems, "Sins concatenated on sins" inflamed by poverty. It may require ongoing vigilance. An organization which seems to address these issues in a broad sense is the International Organization of Migration (IOM). I am wondering if you might have any insight regarding this organization and if they would be a good group to work with in addressing human traficking and migration?
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