Science fiction Larry Niven speculated on a future where capital punishment for minor offenses was quite popular - because prisoners were broken down afterwards for spare parts.
Organleggers were criminals who kidnapped folks off the street for the same reason. China has apparently started up step one:
China 'selling prisoners' organs'
By Jill McGivering
BBC News (April 18, 2006)
Top British transplant surgeons have accused China of harvesting the organs of thousands of executed prisoners a year to sell for transplants.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the British Transplantation Society condemned the practice as unacceptable and a breach of human rights.
Anyone care to speculate on how soon Rush
Lamebrain er I mean Limbaugh starts advocating this as a great idea?
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Here's more from the BBC:
...The move comes less than a week after Chinese officials publicly denied the practice.
In March, China said it would ban the sale of human organs from July.
'Selection'
The British Transplantation Society says an accumulating weight of evidence suggests the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed for transplants without consent.
Professor Stephen Wigmore, who chairs the society's ethics committee, told the BBC that the speed of matching donors and patients, sometimes as little as a week, implied prisoners were being selected before execution.
Chinese officials deny the allegations.
(Source: China 'selling prisoners' organs')
My guess is that anyone with a organ type matching that of a top Chinese official or any rich person had best stay out of China, least they find themselves behind bars awaiting trial and disassembly...