Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Organ Sales

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

“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