Persuasive Essay On Organ Trafficking

Because the need for organs is always present in our society, illegal organ trafficking is current and goes on every single day. At the same time, people who are legally and patiently waiting for an organ die in the process. Data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) shows that in 2010 alone, there were 90,000 patients waiting for a life-saving organ. From those on the waiting lists, there were only 17,000 transplants performed that year. About 10,500 of them were from dead donors while only 3,000 came from live donors. Meanwhile there were about 28,000 names removed from the UNOS waiting list. Want to know what happened to the other 11,000 patients? 4,600 names were removed because the patients died waiting while the other 2,100 names were deleted because the patients became too sick to withstand the transplant. …show more content…
As you can see, people placed on the UNOS list have very little hope of ever receiving that lifesaving organ they are promised. Given the circumstances, the organ black market has taken advantage of these desperate patients and has been thriving for years. Organ trafficking occurs in three broad categories: There are cases where the victim is deceived into giving up an organ, there are cases where the victim formally agrees to sell their organ and/or are cheated because they are not paid or paid lower than promised, and lastly, there are cases where a patient is treated for a condition, which may or may not exist, and in which the organ is then removed without the victim’s knowledge. The person(s) in the vulnerable category include the homeless, migrants, the illiterate and so forth. A surprising fact is that organ trafficking can occur with any person(s) of