The Pros And Cons Of Selling Human Organs

Is it ethical to buy or sell human organs? For this ethical issue, a college student with heavy financial burdens chooses to sell his kidney to meet his urgent financial needs, however, he later learns that it is illegal to sell his own kidney. Therefore, why should it be illegal for him to sale his own kidney if we have free will over our own bodies and we have the right to what we can or cannot do with our bodies? If medical companies can turn a profit on dead people’s donated bodies and organs then why can’t we make a profit on our own organs while we are still living? Would commoditizing the sale of organs hurt the poor and benefit the rich? So many questions and very little we can do about any of it, after all, the government tries to
According to Robert Berman, “It is legal for men to sell their sperm, for women to "rent" their wombs as surrogate mothers or sell their limited number of reproductive eggs, and for people to sell their blood and hair, all of which specifically render the body a commodity.” Therefore, why does this change when it comes to other part of our bodies like organs? Is it because the financial benefits that come from these other procedures are significantly less or that people are willing to do anything including committing crimes in order to obtain a lifesaving organ. If it means life or death, people are more likely to do things they wouldn’t have done otherwise, like going underground and getting transplant surgery in a third world country. People facing death are willing to go to extremes to save their own lives and patients who travel abroad to purchase organs experience no legal repercussions upon their return. Therefore, the laws prohibiting the legal sale of organs within the United States and the long waiting lists for viable organs, is in some aspect helping our poor but dehumanizing the poor of the third world