“Organs for Sale” is an argument written in response to the on-going ethical debate of a market-based incentive program to meet the rising demands of organ transplants. With many on the waiting list for new organs and few organs being offered, the author, Sally Satel, urges for legalization of payment to organ donors. Once in need of a new kidney herself, Sally writes of the anguish she encountered while facing three days a week on dialysis and the long wait on the UNOS list with no prospective willing donors in sight. She goes on to list several saddening researched facts on dialysis patients survival rates, length of time on the UNOS wait list, and registered as well as deceased donor numbers. While Sally is…
Many people are simply reluctant to donate their bodily parts. In response to the shortage, proposals have come forth advocating the sale of non-vital human organs.” (Andre, Claire, and Manuel Velasquez. " Organ Selling and Transplants." Organ Selling and Transplants.)…
The trade of organs has been a controversial issue for a long time all over the world. The article “Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal” is published by The New York Times in December, 2011. The article is written in an effective manner to attract the audience and argue for the legalization of selling kidneys and compensation for donors. By using personal experience to grab the audience’s attention, with the aid of false analogies as well as rhetorical techniques, the article is relatively effective in sharing information of kidney trade and persuading the audience to legalize the selling of kidney.…
The lack of transplantable organs has encouraged a lot of intellectuals to think of using financial incentives as a motive to facilitate organs donation. There has been recurring commentaries that appeal using market approach in the transplant community. There is an economic analysis that came up showing the effectiveness of successful of transplantation and emphasizing the imperative need for organs. However, there is a question that should be addressed; does a cost-benefit analysis ethically justify vending organs? Actually, there are a lot of social and ethical consequences that should be taken into consideration when answering this question.…
In some parts of the globe, there are ads roaming related to procurement of organs from individuals who are impoverished and destitute. The government and the public must be vigilant in exposing this black market trade of organ trafficking so as to safeguard the dignity, confidentiality, and humanity in general. The mainstream media must be cooperative in relaying to the public not only the positive implications of medical research but also the contrary, so that that knowledge and understanding of present scientific advancement and problems may be learned.…
Everyday many Americans and others across the world are in need of artificial organs, which is are man-made devices that are implanted into a person to replace their own natural organ and to perform the same functions as that natural organ would. The ability of this to succeed has been one of the biggest achievements in medicine and still continues to save the lives of people everywhere. However, this subject also brings up a lot of controversy. The main problem is that the supply of organs available is less than the great demand of patients needing them, therefore, there has to be way that decides how the organs will be distributed amongst the patients. There are many methods this can be done, but when doing so, one should not take into account a person’s “social worth” and neither should they account for self-inflicted injuries. If it is taken into account, then it is not promoting justice as fairness.…
Compensating donors for organ donations is one of the most controversial debates we have today. The shortage of organ donations in America is the one of the main reason there is a sudden drive to supplement the possible sources of organs. It first began with the move from donations of organs from cadaver to donations from living donors, and no the debate is rerisen, to the possibility of building a market for organ donations with a financial incentive.…
More than two million people across the globe are in desperate need for a form of transplant. Waiting lists can be years long, as there is an inadequacy to meet the demand. Seizing on this opportunity, people have turned towards the highly controversial organ trafficking system. The harvesting of such ‘black market’ organs is deemed illegal, but is allegedly booming in China. It has become the destination for people wanting to avoid the waiting lists and receive a ‘quick’ transplant. China conducts more transplant surgeries than any other country besides the United States; and it is said the wait for a vital organ is less than a month and over 10,000 organs are transplanted each year. But unlike other countries, China has no effective organ…
Every single year 4,000 people die waiting to receive a kidney alone. Thousands more die waiting on the organ donor list. It is the desperate need to survive that has caused people to do immeasurable things, even if it’s illegal. The organ sales on the black market is a very real thing. Obviously, there is a great need for organs, so is the global market for organ sales the answer? This is a complicated and delicate question to pose because many believe that a for profit system cannot exist without exploiting the poor and underprivileged. However, is the need for the market so great that society should be willing to take that risk? Is the fear of death so great, that you would go to jail in order to keep living? This paper will portray different…
The topic of organ transplantation market raises ethical questions regarding the value of human life and the idea of commodifying human organs. Sally Satel on The Organ Donation podcast by EconTalk provided an interesting insight into the transplantation market discourse in the United States. In America, there are approximately 98,000 people on the waiting list for kidneys, but only five thousand are donated annually (Roberts, 2017). Correspondingly, as people wait for kidneys to become available, they receive dialysis treatment which accounts for 6 percent of the annual health budget (Roberts, 2017). Therefore, to solve the ongoing problem of kidney shortages, there is an argument for creating organ transplantation market, where people would…
Abstract Organ transplant saves many lives, but there are many ethical and moral issues involved in organ transplant. Some of the issues ethical issues involved in transplantation include who gets the organs, how many organs each patient gets, and how patients move up on the transplant list. There is a shortage of organs available for transplant in regard to the number of patients that need organ transplantation. Would compensation for the organs donated increase the number of people willing to donate? Compensation or incentives for donating organs is an ethical dilemma itself. Many of them will always exist.…
The government abolished organ sale and the government can also legalize it. The only reason organ sale hasn't been legalized already is because the issue is so controversial. So many people for some reason feel that it's morally repugnant that someone would be willing to get compensated to go under the knife to save someone's life. Furthermore, there is a big problem that comes with organ sale that can't be ignored. This problem is the black market ,the black market is a reference underground organized crime of all types. In some countries where organ sale is legal and even in ones where it is not the black market continuously gets there hands on human organs and sales them for a huge profit. These organs are usually confiscated from young abducted children and adults or the poor. Criminals in the black market have taken advantage of the organ shortage and are literally making millions of of desperate people in need of organs. Even in the black market it is rare to find the donor compensated. In most cases the donor dies or gets a serious infection because their organ were not harvested in a professional matter and the operation was not done…
This report is written to investigate the effectiveness of organ sales in a society which has included a number of issues such as organ trafficking as well as abduction towards the society for both developed and developing countries.…
In the United States, there are over one hundred twenty-three thousand people waiting to receive a life-saving organ donation, yet only about one out of every eight will ever receive that precious gift, and a second chance at life (optn.transplant.hrsa.gov) The demand for organ donation has consistently exceeded supply, and the gap between the number of recipients on the waiting list and the number of donors has increased by ninety-three percent since 1991 according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As a result, some propose radical new ideas to meet the demands, including the legalization and sale of human organs. Financial compensation for…
In order to make the issues of ethics involving organ transplants, we first need to understand how clearly is describe the organ transplantation process. Organ transplant is a movement from one body to another. It is also a relocation of an organ from an origin site to another potential site. Introducing the possibility of an organ transplant in the medical field was a great achievement that helps many patients. However, that same introduction of organ transplant in the medical field has had so many ethical problems too. It is also a big step too that Medicare is funding the transplants. One of the many issues presented is that injustice in the distribution process. The problem is that may believe that the waiting list is not fair to everybody and the demand is way higher than the offer. People getting organs are a small percentage compares to the entire all the people that need one. Is it linked to money issue, or to discrimination? That is why it is imperative to find a solution to that fact. In order to fix all the issues that could be deducted from the issue is that how to find a way to a better distribution of the organ, also a how to determine who needs it more without the fact of money or discrimination concern by looking at the patient’s condition and financial condition. Organ transplants also are confronted to so many ethical issues like social, religious and financials.…