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H. Barry Jacobs calls for selling organs on the public marketplace.

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Jacobs, a self-proclaimed "organ broker," begins organizing to build a market for organ donations from people who are struggling economically, many of whom are immigrants and refugees in the U.S. and Global South.

This will become one of the motivations for the passage of the National Organ Transplant Act, which specifically prevents the sale of organs from living donors to organ brokers.