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Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Organ Sales

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Organ donations are scarce, yet the need for new organs is rising. Tens of thousands of people die each year waiting for organs. Tens of thousands of people whose lives could have been saved, if only more people donated. Maybe there is another way. People tend to give things up and conform more easily when a reward is in pursuit. This reward could be a mental reward, for example, the feeling gained from helping someone (known or otherwise) or a physical reward, for example, money. Seeing as how "money runs the world" it is within reason to assume that there would be a greater influence if people were to be paid for their organs. This is just one reason as to why the selling of organs should be legalized. As a country that claims to be dedicated …show more content…

“Many will protest that an organ market will lead to exploitation and unfair advantages for the rich and powerful. But these are the characteristics of the current illicit organ trade.” As with drug prohibition today and alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, pushing a market underground is the way to make it rife with violence and criminality not helping the situation. “Although not every black market transaction is exploitative demonstrating that organ sales, in and of themselves, are not the problem the most unsavory parts of the trade can be attributed to the fact that it is illegal. Unfortunately, prohibition drives up black-market profits, turns the market over to organized crime, and isolates those harmed in the trade from the normal routes of recourse.” “Yet, the organ trade continues to operate in the shadows and questionable activities occur in the medical establishment under the color of law. Even today, doctors sometimes legally harvest organ tissue from dead patients without consent. Meanwhile, thousands are perishing and even more are suffering while we wait for the system to change. The truly decent route would be to allow people to withhold or give their organs freely, especially upon death, even if in exchange for money. Thousands of lives would be saved.”. “Humanitarianism is best served by the respect for civil liberty, and yet we are deprived both, with horribly unfortunate consequences, just to maintain the pretense of state-enforced

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An organ is so much more than a body part in fact it may even be a life line for some. Could you imagine selling your organs just to put food on the table? Joanna MacKay wrote "Organ Sales Will Save Lives,” which was published in 2016 in The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings by Richard Bullock. In this article MacKay argues that lives should be saved not wasted. MacKay helps build her credibility throughout this article with facts and statistics.

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The story, “Kidneys for Sale: A Reconsideration” opinion favors both sides of the argument. Miriam Schulman creates a well-balanced stance on how she feels about the selling of organs. The article was first published in 1988 by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Ten years later

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The essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by MIT student Joanna MacKay was written for a class on ethic and politics in science. In the essay MacKay elaborates that kidney failure is a major problem that has a possibility, not so complex solution. MacKay believes that this issue could possibly be resolved if the legalization of organ sales were to be possible. In fact, her main argument throughout the essay is that government officials should not waste lives, but rather help save them by legalizing this process. Furthermore, she explains the dangers of the black market and how authorizing organ sales would benefit all parties involved.

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The Choice of Life or Death Choosing between life or death is not a decision that you want to make. Of course pretty much everyone is going to choose life over death, but is some cases you don’t have that choice. In the article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”, written by the author Joanna MacKay, she presents an argument about whether or not the sale of organs should be legalized. She builds her credibility by giving numerous facts, examples, and statistics on the argument. People die everyday waiting and hoping to get the call about finding a match for a kidney so that they can have a kidney transplant done.

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She makes a compelling argument as to why legalizing the sale of living donor organs is a great way to address today's organ shortage problem. She offers in-depth justifications for the moral and ethical precepts at play in the argument over organ donation.. She addresses potential objections and concerns in her writing, and she does so in a way that strengthens,’ her authority and knowledge of the subject, which in turn helps readers develop a sense of trust and dependability. I don’t see in any way how she has failed to give us a reason to not trust

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In Joanna MacKay's article, 'Organ Selling Will Save Lives", sides with the legalization of organ selling, due to her main focus she emphasizes on kidney failure. In ignorance of government, patients all over the globe are dying on the wait for a kidney transplant. She presents her ideas that government should not prohibit the sale of organs. She writes "lives shouldn’t be wasted they should be saved". Her thesis is understandable and she supports it with good reasons.

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The text is directed toward medical personnel because it causes them to question, “what if”, organ sales legalized or what would they gain from this legalization? His article is also directed towards people in need of an organ, and organ donors. Gregory is successful when he uses logical, emotional and ethical tactics to persuade his audience on why organ sales would be beneficial. Some logical tactics Gregory uses to persuade his audience is giving the number of how many people die waiting for a transplant. He states, “...there are only about 20,000

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In her article, she proposes that the legalization of organ sales would open economic opportunities for people who need financial help and are willing to give up a kidney. This seems favorable for both parties, but there are implications that would leave someone at a disadvantage. As her article continues, she paints a picture of how we are responsible

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Throughout the article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”, her thesis statement is clear. Joanne believes that people should be allowed to donate their kidneys even if people believe that it is “morally wrong.” Throughout her entire article she restates her opinion that people should be able to sell kidney’s without consequences. In the article, she states why people believe that it shouldn’t be legal as well as people who do believe that it should be legal. Most people believe that it shouldn’t be legal for one reason, that it is morally wrong.

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This system of selling vital organs on a highest bid to me is highly unethical. First of all, how can the highest bidder know that the organ he or she is about to spend immense amount of money on is the right match? Second of all, how is that fair to those who really need that specific organ to live another day but simply cannot afford it, let along place bids on compared to those millionaires who have the means to do so? Not only would such a system sell and implant organs without scientific evaluation, but it would also ensure many deaths of those who are in need of these organs, but have no means to purchase this gift of life. This free fall system would also weaken the OPTN system.

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The Organ trade, more specifically commercial trade of human organs, is the practice of treating a human organ as a commodity, for the purpose of being sold or bought for commercial gain (The Kidney Foundation of Canada, n.d.). This practice puts a price on human life, and enables those of wealthier standpoint to mistreat and enable those of a poorer standpoint to put a price on their lives and sell their organs. The coercer of buyer to seller in an organ transaction is the organ broker, one who finds the seller and drives the transaction for the buyer (Mcgraw-Hill, 2002). These people often times trick and manipulate persons in low economic situations to sell their internal organs in order to receive money in return. They take advantage of

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Whether someone believes in the marketing of human organs or not, one must factor in the positives and negatives of the economic growth, medical benefits, and resourcing that is found when having human organs become a good to buy and sell. Poverty is a large issue in urban and rural areas around the world. Some countries believe in selling human organs and some oppose. The ideology of making a market on human organs as an economic achievement may seem a bit bizarre to the naked eye. Through the knowledge and research, one may change their view.

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Ronald Faison Eng-106 February 20, 2018 Professor MaryBeth Nipp Definition Argument Essay The selling of human organs under U.S law is illegal for many reasons. By having bids on life or death situations can have a negative effect on people with low to no income waiting for an organ. The only lawful procedure for someone to receive an organ transplant as of now is to be placed on a waiting list. Human organs that are sold is considered human trafficking because it is the process of selling or transferring human tissue by force (National Institute of Justice, 2007).

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Humans must have complete autonomy over their bodies. Their safety must be taken into serious consideration and the vulnerable and less fortunate ones must be protected from being duped into such an unethical crime that is stimulated by dishonest doctors and organ brokers. So, in order to achieve this safety level and hopefully put this illegal behavior at an end, I encourage all of you to take action and become organ donors. The supply of organs will increase legally; thus, the number of organs sold unethically in the Black Market will decrease. Tragic expressions such as “HER HEART IS MISSING” won’t be seen anymore in bold letters on the news or on newspapers’ first page.

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