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Pakistan: Man must choose between selling kidney or child
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2009-07-17 05:04
Story here. Excerpt:
'SARGODA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney.
For the 50-year-old Iqbal, there is only one option. Despite a law passed in late 2007 banning transplants for money, he has decided to sell his kidney and has already been for pre-operation tests. The sale will net him between $1,100 and $1,600.
"What's incredible here is the law that bans the operation he's going to go through came into place in 2007," said CNN's Nic Robertson. "He's still able to go to a doctor, the doctors given him advice, that's what he has to do under law... He's going to make money out of it 100,000-150,000 rupees, and that is absolutely illegal. Yet, in just a few days, he's expecting to sell his kidney."
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Where's the UN Commission on Men's Rights for this?
Oh yeah, there isn't one. Forgot...
Tyranny of our economic system
The attitudes that many of us have about money are out of whack. Sure we need money to live, but health is more important than money. If you are sick, as this article points out, you will not be able to work, or you won't be able to work as long or as hard. If you are sick, you will not be able to enjoy the money you made. And killing yourself to make a lot of money (something a lot of young people are doing these days) is not going to work out well for anyone.
Why is it that the man is the one who is expected to suffer degraded health on behalf of his family? Why is it that the man is expected to die early so as to support his family (and farm workers exposed to pesticides provide another example here)? Why is it that the man is the one who is expected to go to war and die? I can reach no other conclusion but that men are considered of less value, considered dispensable.