Persuasive Essay On Selling Organs

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 parts of the body are not so clear. The usual argument in favor of allowing the sale of not only organs, but also tissues, bone marrow, gametes (eggs and sperm) and even genetic material, is that we need to increase supply. In the United States,