America currently has a very high demand for organ donations. Every twelve minutes, someone new is added to the organ donor list. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services data of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network took account for the number of people currently awaiting for an organ transplant, which is one-hundred and twenty-one thousand, three-hundred and thirty-three patients. Due to the demand being much higher than the supply of organ donors, twenty one patients die every day on average (Small-Jordan).
The number of people waiting in America is an overwhelming amount. On the contrary, America’s low number of supply is nothing compared to the country of China. China has the lowest number of organ donations in the world, with a rate of sixth tenths donations per million people. Years ago, to help meet the demand for donations, the country revenued organs from prisoners that were put on death row. Since then, China’s government has banned this operation because it violated their cultures pride of the sacredness of the human body. “Many Chinese believe the body is sacred and should be buried intact in a show of
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Yes, it would lower the crime rate of the black market, and it would probably lower the demand for organ donations. All in all, if the sale of organs were to be made legal in America, it would give certain patients an unfair advantage. The only outcome of this change would be a different type of waiting list; people who have wealth would be at the top, and people who had little money would be at the bottom. The banning of the sale of organs may have risen the donor waiting list, but it has maintained equality and fairness to the people who are waiting for an organ. There is still the alternative of the black market, which is illegal, that people may turn to. In order to receive a quality, legal organ, patients faithfully wait their