Canada’s Senate unanimously approved a bill meant to help combat international organ trafficking on May 6. Bill S-204 will now be passed on to the House of Commons for deliberations by MPs before it can be passed into law. “[Organ trafficking] is a violation of the principles of equity, justice, and respect for human dignity. Let us be global leaders in the battle against organ trafficking,” Sen. Salma Ataullahjan, the sponsor of the bill, told the Senate on May 6. “This piece of legislation has been the culmination of over 12 years of parliamentary work on the pressing issue of organ trafficking,” she said, referring to previous proposed legislation on the issue in past parliamentary sessions that didn’t get passed into law before those sessions ended due to upcoming elections. Raising in the Senate to support the bill, Sen. David Richards said that “time has come to pass this bill.” “We …