A kidney fetches$2700 in Turkey and up to $4000 in the Philippines. Another$6,000-12,000 go to various intermediaries. According to the October 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, this isa high price. An Indian or Iraqi kidney enriches itsformer owner by a mere $1000. Wealthy clients later pay for the rare organ up to$150,000.
reporters in Mexico were asked, by a priest acting as a middleman for a doctor, to pay close to 1 million dollars for a singlekidney. An auctionof a human kidneyon eBay drew a bid of$100,000 before the company put astop to it.
Penumbral middlemen and surgeons operate on Turkish, Moldovan, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Romanian, Bosnian, Kosovar, Macedonian, Albanian and assorted east European donors.
They remove kidneys, lungs, pieces of liver, even corneas, bones, tendons, heart valves, skin and other sellable human bits. The organs are kept incold storage and air lifted to illegal distribution centers in the United States, Germany, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Israel, South Africa, and other rich, industrializedlocales. It gives"brain drain" a new, spine chilling, meaning.
Organ trafficking has become an international trade. It involves Indian, Thai, Philippine, Brazilian, Turkish and Israeli doctorswho scour the Balkan and other destitute regions for tissues.
Moldova cut off the thriving baby adoption trade due to an - an unfounded - fear the toddlers were being dissected for spare organs. According to the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, the Romanians are investigating similar allegationsin Israel and have withheld permission to adopt Romanian babies from dozens of eager and out of pocket couples. American authorities are scrutinizing a two year old Moldovanharvesting operation based in the United States.

Organ trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade

And all this time I've been burying the bodies in my backyard! *Starts clearing out the freezer*

I think you should be allowed to sell your organs if you want to. It would kill the illegal traffic and it would save lives and it would help poor people who desperately need the money.

That wont happen until the government finds a way to profit (more) from it.

We have to reign in Congresses power, so that they no longer can interfere in this sort of thing.

Ummm, sure. That will happen right after they vote themselves a salary cut.....

We don't need a single vote from Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment to limit their powers or to repeal an existing amendment.