Simon Ripposing Options On People In Poverty Summary

In the essay, “Imposing Options on People in Poverty: The Harm of a Live Donor Organ Market” author Simon Rippon takes an ethical stance on the sale of organs from living donors based on the effects it would have on the sellers. For our presentation project, my group plans to focus on the creation of an organ market for living donors and the effects it would have on an individual and societal level. By taking the information that Rippon provides in the essay, my group can formulate an argument against the claim that an organ market should be made for living donors. Rippon takes an interesting approach to defend his stance by discussing a fault in one of the premises made by supporters of an organ market. To establish his point, Rippon takes a
Overall, the essay provides insight on one specific claim against organ sales that my group can use to contribute to our comprehensive argument against an organ market; the claim being that a legal organ market should not be pursued because its introduction would also create a greater harm for the poverty-stricken. Taking a closer look at the essay by Simon Rippon, his thesis states, “I will make a positive argument that a live donor organ market should be prohibited because giving people in poverty the option to sell their organs would itself impose an impermissible harm on them” (146). Rippon’s main point that is touched in each portion of his essay is that by allowing a legal organ market to form, it will cause a greater harm to poverty-stricken citizens because they will be the vulnerable individuals who would be willing to sell their organs. This point is made to directly contradict a premise in defense of a legal market that states, "If we take away what some regard as their best option, we thereby make them worse off, at least from their own