Iran is opening up its laws to allow donors to economically benifit from donating a kidney. Contrast this to the more “enlightened” United States or Europe where only the doctors, hospitals, donor matching firms and insurance companies are allow to profit from the transaction, not the person supplying the kidney.

Read the Story in the Economist.

4000 people died in the US while on a waiting list for a new kidney. Thats more than all those who died in the 9/11 attacks. Ironic that Fundementalist Iran might liberalize its laws to save more lives that Islamic Fundementalists took.