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SturdyGal ago

Article by Ethan Watters for the Pacific Standard and posted by the George Webb Twitter Group

Her research during this period yielded a wealth of information and insight into the illicit networks of organ brokers. The trade in kidneys particularly fascinated her. Unlike the trade in cadaveric heart valves or corneas, kidneys were being shipped from country to country inside the living bodies of sentient individuals. In the Philippines, kidney sellers she interviewed often pulled up their shirts, displaying their nephrectomy scars with evident pride

Presented in relation to pizzagate as proof of, and reason for, trafficking living bodies .