Market for Organs‚ Health Market Reform‚ Sales of Organs 1 Introduction Should organ sales be legalized in the United States? In today’s society‚ many people are suffering from diseases and conditions that require an organ transplant in order to survive. The transplant list for those in need of a new organ such as a kidney seems endless. Every day‚ nearly 74 people receive an organ transplant‚ while each day another 17 people die waiting for their transplant due to the lack of donated organs (Friedman
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IN HUMANS are two bean-shaped - about 4 inches long and about 2 ½ inches wide organs called kidneys which are located near the vertebral column at the small of the back . The main function of the kidneys are to purify the blood by separating urea‚ mineral salts‚ toxins and other waste products from it. Nature has so provided every human being a set of 2 kidneys so that blood purification runs on smoothly; one kidney assisting
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TERM PAPER RESEARCH : Selling Human Organs ARTICLE 1 : Should people be allowed to sell their organs? Currently‚ exchanging organs for money or other "valuable considerations" is illegal‚ but some members of the medical and business communities would like to change that. One of those is the American Medical Association’s influential Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Convinced that the balance of moral and ethical concerns favors the ability to sell organs‚ they would like the laws to change
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The debate on selling Organs Patients on a waiting list for organ transplant live under tremendous emotional stress‚ physical limitations‚ continuous medical care‚ and in some cases‚ under daily medical attention. Family members and close friend are also affected by watching their love one day-after-day live with limitations and medical needs that a simple pill can’t fix. Furthermore‚ the financial medical hardship creates even more unwanted stress. So it’s easy to see why family members would be
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Organ donation affects hundreds of thousands of people and their families worldwide. At the end of October 2008‚ more than 100‚000 people were waiting for an organ in the United States alone. Unfortunately‚ the number of donors is nowhere near that figure. The development of organ transplantation as a standard medical procedure denotes that there is a substantial demand for organs than is adequate to fulfill the current needs (Barber 234). If the organs were readily available as needed‚ thousands
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Selling Organs on the Black Market Every teenager wants to own the newest iPhone or iPad but to save up for those working at the local McDonald’s it would take some time. But in China‚ you can get it just by selling a kidney. In face according to a BBC news article dated April 6‚ 2012 five people were arrested for convincing a teenager to sell his kidney in an online chat room for the equivalent of $3‚000. The teenager is now suffering from kidney failure‚ and just for a couple of new toys
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up for what is right. This same general scenario is happening not too far from this country‚ where organ brokers are victimizing innocent and poverty-stricken mothers and fathers trying to find a way to provide and get out of debt‚ by either forcing or deceiving them to give up an organ or cheating them whether formally or informally‚ after they agree to sell‚ by either not paying them for their organ at all or only paying a fraction of the promised price (Glaser‚ S.‚2005). But the way that nobody
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Who owns your body? Discussion of the sale of human organs is too often overshadowed by cases of mistreatment‚ murder‚ and corruption. Most people fail to acknowledge that such abuses stem directly from the legal bans on selling body parts. Those opposed to a market in organs argue that selling body parts not only threatens the quality of the organ supply but will inevitably exploit people forced by poverty to enter such a market. But the ethical issues about whether people should be allowed to sell
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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
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do not have the right to sell their organs to those who need them. Multiple people believe that you do not have the right over your own body. The OPTN/UNOS Ethics Committee suggests that the “Opponents of financial incentives point out that there would be potentially decreased emotional gain for the donor family‚ decreased respect for life and the sanctity of the human body‚ and a loss of the personal link that currently exists in the donation process” (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network)
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