Posted: Submitted by wtanaka (648) on Tue, 2006-11-28 07:15. | Subject: Organ Transpant Laws

China is creating new organ transplant rules to prevent organ harvesting abuses:

China will tighten its organ transplant rules to prevent unqualified doctors and profit-hungry hospitals from abusing patients, state media said Monday, amid concerns that executed prisoners have had their organs harvested without consent.

For comparison, in Spain, Austria, Belgium and Singapore, it's legal to use organs from dead bodies unless the individual or family has made a formal objection. Iran has a government regulated organs market.  I don't know if the government picking which hospitals are allowed to do organ transplants is the way to go, but I do think this is one case where adding some regulations to the free(-wheeling), wild, sometimes black market is the way to go.