Hospitals seem to routinely deny mothers the right to take their placenta with them: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd57m3/heres-why-women-are-stealing-their-o

Hospitals seem to routinely deny mothers the right to take their placenta with them: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd57m3/heres-why-women-are-stealing-their-own-placentas-924 https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd57m3/heres-why-women-are-s... > Dr. Kristal pointed out, with slight hesitancy, that research hospitals could have a financial motive to keeping women's placentas given that "a lot of bigger hospitals have—or, at least, had—contracts with pharmaceutical and cosmetic houses to sell the placentas." The hospitals I spoke with denied this allegation, but it's perhaps worth noting that Baylor Hospitals—which is notorious for refusing to let moms take home their placentas—is also part of a national study to evaluate the efficacy of using cells derived from human placenta to treat Crohn's disease. Or another report: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/82739 https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/8273... > One of the most widely used products for lower extremity wounds, Lantis said, is EpiFix, which is made by MiMedx. It is synthesized from "dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane" -- placental material -- according to the company's website. In 2013, the FDA warned the company about marketing the product without approval, which the firm eventually obtained. > If women knew more about the money, power, and scandal behind their donations, they might see donation differently, Turner said. > "What if women were given the full account, that some biobank is going to acquire it, process it, assign it value, and then it's going to be marked up and sold again," Turner said. "Some women might think twice." These are just in the first page of google results. It's shady but not exactly illegal (apparently) to ask mothers on the operating table to sign off on "donating" their placentas. If such donations are regularly solicited, I don't find it that surprising that hospitals profit off of them one way or another. I do agree the CEO should back up her claims.