Every day, there are thousands of patients waiting for a new organ. People are forced to wait an extended amount of time before it is their turn to get an organ. The reason behind this is that the number of organ donors is limited. However, what if organs could be bought from someone? Would that speed up someone’s wait time? Would legalizing organ sales help save more lives? That being said, organ sales should continue to be outlawed by the government.
There are an enormous amount of illegal organs on the black market. This is especially true in third-world countries. Legalizing organ trade might decrease the price of an organ, but it would cause more abduction to take people’s organs.
People who trade their organs for a large sum of money are usually the ones who are in debt or have a specific reason. For example, a parent might sell one of his kidneys to help pay for his son’s heart surgery, or someone in a third-world country might sell an organ to feed his children. The reason is not important; organ sales can produce a fortune in a short amount of time.
Hernold took a survey of sample patients across the United States. This survey showed that in a
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Alberto Giubilini wrote “in terms of physical, psychological, social, and financial consequences, vendors will usually experience a range of significant harms that leave them worse off than before the sale.” He also gave an example of a poor individual who refused to go back to the hospital for medical treatment because he did not want anyone to know that he sold his kidney. This could later lead the man to suffer from unemployment (Giubilini 25). Unemployment and a decreased quality of life would lead to a worst case scenario; the seller of the organ could go into a deep depression and possibly commit suicide. This was further expressed by Rothman in his article The Hidden Cost of Organ Sale. He wrote