Human organs like kidney, liver, heart or fragments of body like skin, semen, egg, genes, embryo and even fetuses are sold over the counter as a commercial enterprise. Babies are bought and sold through surrogate mother contracts. Frozen embryos are often in legal limbo as the courts decide whether they are people or property. To attempt to overcome the uncontrollable trade in organs the Indian parliament passed a bill in 1994, in keeping with the WHO guiding principles, prohibiting commercial dealings. There are restrictions for removal and retrieval of human organs and also regulations of hospitals involved to ensure transparency by all concerned.
Law prohibits removal and transplantation of organs for any purpose other than therapeutic.
Surgery can only be done after explaining the effect and risks both to the donor as well as the recipient. Discussion and Conclusions Hindus, Muslims and Christians generally support organ donation as this is an act of giving. Judaism prohibits deriving benefits from mutilating or delaying the burial of a corpse but this prohibition can be overridden to save a life for organ transplants. In Japan there is much debate about using brain dead donors, and still no law. To overcome the scarcity of organs attempts have been made to use organs from other species like Chimpanzee kidneys, baboon heart, liver and kidney.