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Five missionary nuns in Mozambique say they've been threatened with death since telling authorities about an organ-trafficking scheme that allegedly kidnaps and kills children and youths, reports Catholic news service Zenit. Quoting the Spanish Catholic agency Veritas, Zenit reported the women have escaped four ambush attacks after revealing information about "kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of an organ trafficking network." The news agency says the story was corroborated by a missionary who asked to be identified only as "D.J." The women – four from Spain and one from Brazil – have been missionaries in the...

An international ring of human organ bootleggers involving people in South Africa and Brazil was broken up earlier this month. Almost everyone thought that these transactions--even though they saved some people's lives, increased some people's options, and involved no force or coercion--were evil. Opposition to selling organs is visceral, so to speak, in most people, and is reflected in the laws of nearly every nation. We've all heard the urban legend about some poor schlub who groggily comes to in a hotel room writhing in pain with a huge set of stitches down his back, usually in a bathtub full...