Sunday, December 6, 2009

Selling kidneys is immoral but blood is o.k.


NYTimes

WHEN the tips her husband earned as a waiter began dwindling a year ago, Esmeralda Delgado decided to help support her family.

Twice a week, Ms. Delgado, the mother of three young girls, walks across the bridge from Piedras Negras, Mexico, where she lives, to Eagle Pass and enters a building just two blocks from the border.

Inside, for about an hour, Ms. Delgado lies hooked to a machine that extracts plasma, the liquid part of the blood, from a vein in her arm. The $60 a week she is paid almost equals her husband's earnings.[...]

1 comment :

  1. that's the Usa's funny laws. In most other countries, you cannot get money for donating blood.

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