Benefits Of Legalizing Organs

The demand for organ donors far exceeds the supply of available organs. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) … there are more than 77,000 people in the U.S. who are waiting to receive an organ (Organ Selling 1). The article goes on to say that the majority of those on the national organ transplant waiting list are in need of kidneys, an overwhelming 50,000 people. Although financial gain in the U.S and in most countries is illegal, by legalizing and structuring a scale for organ donor monetary payment, the shortage of available donors could be reduced. Legalizing this controversial issue will help with the projected forecast for a decrease in the number of people on the waiting list, the ethical concerns around benefitting from organ donation, and to include compensation for the organ donor.

Organ donations not only save lives but also money and time. If organ donations became prevalent the organ recipient would no longer need dialysis. Since there is no need for dialysis the cost to use the machine would lessen; this means that the cost of equipment would decrease, saving the hospital and insurance company’s money. More lives would be saved as well as benefit from those that no longer need an organ. In the book titled “Elements of Bioethics” adult organ transplants are only that have medical insurance. If organs are taken from recently deceased the cost for those that has no medical coverage was lessen. The process of organ transplantation is life changing and time is crucial. With shorter waiting time it would put ease on the person’s heart to know that this lifesaving event would happen sooner rather than later. In addition, when the organ is taken from the recently deceased the risk would be eliminated from

Two and a half million people passed away in 2013 and less than 20% of those people donated their organs (www.organdonor.gov). More people should donate their organs when they are deceased. As far as the issue being fixed, more people need to be educated on organ donation and how they can save a life with their own organs, especially when they are deceased. The cause of all the people on the waiting list for an organ is because of the massive amount of transplants needed and not enough organs available for the recipients, so they end up passing while waiting to be treated. This is because not enough people know about donating organs. Those that do know about it have the idea that the seller would be exploited and the buyer would come out with the advantage. Organ transplantation is needed when someone is in the final stages of organ failure. People are dying waiting for a transplant because not many of the people in America know about donating an organ. Taking the proper steps towards the legalization of organs may help the amount of people dying on the waiting list (www.organdonor.gov). In America each day 79 people receive organ transplants and an average of 18 people die each day on the waiting list due to the massive amount of recipients in need and not enough organs to go around, a person in need of a transplant is added to the waiting list every 10 min that approximately 144 a day, of that only 79 are being helped a day with an

What are the benefits of organ selling and should it be made legal? By legalizing organ selling we would be saving lives. People sell organs on the black market every day; the downfall to this is that the surgeons that remove the organs are not always sanitary or certified. The article legalizing paid organs: pros and cons states “Establishing a federal agency to oversee organ sales

Selling one’s organs for money is not something that is typically talked about, and when it is everyone has an opinion. Organ selling is often viewed as a controversial subject like abortion and politics. Joanna MacKay’s article is superb. She effectively argues that organ sales should be legalized and that it is immoral to deny someone the opportunity to save a life. Organ sales would support the buyer and seller in numerous ways.

This is an important topic because the amount of people waiting for a kidney on the organ transplant list continues to grow, as the supply and demand for kidney’s is significantly inverse. The more people who need kidney’s, the more kidney’s needed to supply everyone. If selling organs were legal, patients could make appointments after several screenings of tests to donate a kidney for someone in need. This would benefit everyone

Illegal organ sales are on the rise because of the worldwide organ shortage. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that there are over one hundred and nineteen thousand men, women, and children currently waiting on the transplant list, and twenty-two of them die each day waiting for a transplant (Organ, 2015). Many individuals are utilizing the black market as a means to receive an organ for themselves or a loved one because they feel it is the only option. Organ sales should be legal because of the increasing number of illegal activities surrounding the process; transplants will be done in a safe and managed environment, the poor will not be exploited by black market criminal activity, and the number of organs available will

And while this does seem like a simple and easy option, it has many problems. One of the key problems is that it would be introducing money into a system, which just begs for greed and corruption. And there are already people who disregard the health of others in favor of money. For example, Mylan Pharmaceuticals raised the price of their life-saving EpiPen from $94 to $608 (Times Editorial Board, 2016). However, this is a much bigger issue when applied to organ donations as organs are not just some drugs, they are pieces of humans. This and other ethical problems mean that legalizing the organ trade would have more problems than it would solve. But one might see that educating people about organ donations would increase the number of

As far as my concern I Believe that Organ sale could save lives, so the question of its ethicality demands consideration. Do people have the right to sell their own organs? Or do the ethical concerns raised by the idea of organ sale outweigh that right? Both arguments against and for organ sale have merit, especially considering organ sale in terms of a single payer market, as well as the argument regarding the right of a person to sell own their own organ.

Starting off, the United States has a problem with organs being sold to the Black Market. As Michael Shafer says in his news article, “Black market organ transfer is the consequence of

Organs were given to us when we came to life. We should give them to others as they were given to us. Why should anyone have to pay for something that can be given freely? If an organ is available, it should go to the person who needs it the most. No one should have to worry about the cost of it. Donating an organ can save a life. If someone cannot afford to pay for an organ, are we supposed to just let him or her die? That is not morally right. While the government plans to save more lives by legalizing payment for organs, it won’t necessarily work out that way. According to the National Kidney Foundation, 92% of families who turned down donating organs of their deceased loved ones said they still would not have donated even if they received payment in return (237). This goes to show that even with money involved, most people

The supporters of the pro side of this debate (or the side that is in favor of the legalization of organ sales) believe that the amount of willing donors would increase astronomically if they were to be offered a “reimbursement” for their donation (I Gave Away a Kidney; would You Sell One). Because the sale of organs and other human matter has been successful in others parts of the world, in several countries including Iran, advocates for legalization believe that success would be inevitable in the United States as well. Hashem Ghasemi, the head of the patient-run Dialysis and Transplant Patients Association of Iran, encourages the U.S. to pursue organ sales. He says in his country, the transplant list has almost completely disappeared, as

The ethical issue for the majority of people in the U.S. does not seem to be whether donating organs should be allowed, but instead should someone be compensated for their donation. As described earlier, the U.S. has a major shortage of organs and an even greater shortage is found in some areas of the world. However, countries like Iran have found a way to eliminate their shortage completely. “Iran adopted a system of paying kidney donors in 1988 and within 11 years it became the only country in the world to clear its waiting list for transplants.” (Economist, 2011) Although this sounds promising, it is important to look at the effects on the organ donor. In a study done on Iranian donors who sold their kidneys, it was found that many donors were negatively affected emotionally and physically after donating and that given the chance most would never donate again nor would they advise anyone else to do so. (Zargooshi, 2001) Additionally, many claimed to be worse off financially after donating due to an inability to work. (Goyal, 2002) To some, this last set of findings would be enough to supersede the benefit of clearing the organ waiting lists.

However, this is not true as things go it is opening a new situation and basically buying the poor out because only rich people will be able to afford purchasing organs. Rich people have no reason to sell an organ because they are not in need of money. If organ sales do become legal, the higher class will “have property right to the body parts of the poor,” which is basically the rich will be able to own the poor because they hold the ability to buy them out (Ritter, 2008). That is morally wrong because humans should not have the right to own one another or should they be able to buy a part of their body through money. Organ sales will not benefit the poor and lower class because they will be mentally forced into selling their organs to solve their financial issues. If the poor were not poor, they would not have financial issues, so they would not have the idea of selling their organs. Organ sales do not benefit the poor because with one less kidney and one less lung, can the poor survive in the current condition they are in? A recent study showed that living kidney donors have a higher risk of renal disease than non-kidney donors (Muzaale, et al, 2014). If they were to get ill from any issue relating to the dysfunction of one less kidney and lung, they simply do not have the money to seek

Should the sales of human organs be legally or not, it is quite difficult to find a satisfied answer to this controversial question at the moment. Although a large number of articles were written, numerous speeches were made, countless meetings were hold to discuss about this matter but until now it is still a big controversy issue all over the world. Thanks to the steadily development of scientist, technology and medicine treatment, nowadays human organ can be transplanted from one to another. As the consequence some people think that selling organs should be legalized but others claim that it must not be done because the crime rate will rise and only the rich benefit from it. However, I believe that selling human