Should Human Organs for Sale?
HUMAN ORGANS FOR SALE
Should the sales of human organs be legally or not, it is quite difficult to find a satisfied answer to this controversial question at the moment. Although a large number of articles were written, numerous speeches were made, countless meetings were hold to discuss about this matter but until now it is still a big controversy issue all over the world. Thanks to the steadily development of scientist, technology and medicine treatment, nowadays human organ can be transplanted from one to another. As the consequence some people think that selling organs should be legalized but others claim that it must not be done because the crime rate will rise and only the rich benefit from it. However, I believe that selling human organs is a right thing to do and should be legalized because of its important and essential to human life.
First of all, organ transplant plays an important role in the medicine. The matter of fact is that there are a large number of patients who are not transplanted and it grows significantly years after years (may be 10-15%). As Aicha commented in the website Blurtit.com,” the number of people in need of organ donations is increasing each year. According to current statistics, in China more than 2 million people require organ transplant, in UK this figure is 8000, in Latin America this figure is 50,000.” Furthermore, David Holcberg (July 21, 2005) stated that “in the city of London, Canada record 87,000 individuals who did not share the athletes' good fortune stand on the U.S. national waiting list for organs. Of the 82,000 waiting for kidneys or livers, about 6,000 will die in the next twelve months.” So with those statistics you can partly image the huge number of people who are waiting for organs such as kidneys or livers each year. However unlike other diseases, the cure for those patients can not be produced by artifical materials in the factory, what those people need is organ from human. Unfortunately, the number of
Should the sales of human organs be legally or not, it is quite difficult to find a satisfied answer to this controversial question at the moment. Although a large number of articles were written, numerous speeches were made, countless meetings were hold to discuss about this matter but until now it is still a big controversy issue all over the world. Thanks to the steadily development of scientist, technology and medicine treatment, nowadays human organ can be transplanted from one to another. As the consequence some people think that selling organs should be legalized but others claim that it must not be done because the crime rate will rise and only the rich benefit from it. However, I believe that selling human organs is a right thing to do and should be legalized because of its important and essential to human life.
First of all, organ transplant plays an important role in the medicine. The matter of fact is that there are a large number of patients who are not transplanted and it grows significantly years after years (may be 10-15%). As Aicha commented in the website Blurtit.com,” the number of people in need of organ donations is increasing each year. According to current statistics, in China more than 2 million people require organ transplant, in UK this figure is 8000, in Latin America this figure is 50,000.” Furthermore, David Holcberg (July 21, 2005) stated that “in the city of London, Canada record 87,000 individuals who did not share the athletes' good fortune stand on the U.S. national waiting list for organs. Of the 82,000 waiting for kidneys or livers, about 6,000 will die in the next twelve months.” So with those statistics you can partly image the huge number of people who are waiting for organs such as kidneys or livers each year. However unlike other diseases, the cure for those patients can not be produced by artifical materials in the factory, what those people need is organ from human. Unfortunately, the number of