Black Market Argumentative Analysis

Imagine yourself in a situation where you are literally dying for an organ and the hospital is unable to supply you with the organ that could save your life. Would you rather suffer in pain or would you turn to the black market to live? Picture yourself in the poorest place in America and you have a perfectly functioning organ and you need to make money fast or else you will be evicted from your home, would you rather wait another few weeks to get your paycheck, or would you sell the organ? These are just some of the situations black market donors and recipients have to deal with. Black market organ selling can be defined as purchasing, selling, or obtaining any organ in an illegal manner and some claim that black market organ trade is unethical. Black Market organ trade should be allowed because this can benefit the donor and the patient in many ways. Unfortunately, where there is a black market, there are crimes involved. Although Black Market Organ selling does have a lot of risks and is illegal, patients should be allowed to turn to them when they are in need of immediate emergency care and are

The current laws that are in place in the United States, which restrict the selling of human organs, increases the odds for a human organs black market to exist.

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.

Dying painfully in a hospital bed is not the way anyone wants to go. Unfortunately for many people, it is a reality. Thousands of people a year end up dying while waiting for an organ that could save their lives. While on the other side of the world, thousands of people die a year, but from infection when an organ is forcefully taken from them to sell on the black market. There are two sides of the organ donation list, and both can end in death. This paper will discuss the shortage of donated organs and the issues with the current donation system. It will also discuss the black market for transplant organs and possible solutions to viable organ shortage. The focus of this paper will be on transplant kidneys as they are the most desirable organ for buyers and sellers.

“Kidneys for Sale” by Miller, Benjamin, and North is about the transplant donor system. It is explained in the beginning of the paper how it is against the law to sell or pay for organs, but it is legal to pay the surgeons to perform the transplant and the hospital to make profit on the operation room used. It is also legal for people to sell their sperm, eggs, and even their blood, but illegal to sell their organs. One can receive an organ as a gift. For example, if their parent decides to donate their kidney to their child, then that is acceptable. However, if one does not have anyone in their lives willing to donate an organ to them, then they are left no choice but to apply to a wait list. There are several waiting lists. Due to

The definition of black market is a market hidden away from the sight of police that sells illegal items such as weapons, drug and even unauthorized removal organ. ‘'Opt Out' System Could Solve Donor Organ Shortage, Says Researcher’ (2008, para. 7) features Dr John Troyer has stated that “organs such as kidneys are being sold by living donors for large sums of money”. In Presumed Consent, everyone is presumed to donate organ to medical sector which lower the value of organ supply. With everyone’s contribution in presumed consent organ donation system, the community can become a safer place for us and our next

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

“Illegal trade in kidneys has risen to such a level that an estimated 10,000 black market operation involving purchased human organs now take place annually or more than one an hour” (The Guardian, 2012). People that are in the need of an organ and willing to participate in illegal activities will either send a broker or go directly to another country where people are lacking in the knowledge of the situation or have an extreme disability and buy an organ rom that individual. In most cases a broker will promise the seller a great amount of money, but in the end they will only receive a fraction of the money that was promised and for some they receive no money. If a broker cannot buy an organ they will steal one. “However, when the organ, like many other valuables that cannot be bought, it is stolen resulting in flagrant violation of human rights” (U.N.O.D.C, 2000). It is currently illegal to buy or sell human organ in the United States and many other countries. People involved with the operation of human trafficking will be charged with a trafficking offence. “For a trafficking offence to be established must be evidence of an illegal act (recruitment) followed by an illegal means (coercion) for the purpose of exploitation (organ harvesting), one in ten organ transplants are illegal” (U.N.O.D.C, 2000). Illegal sales of organs are increasing the rate of criminal

Unfortunately, despite these wonderful advances, people who need an organ often have an incredibly difficult time getting one, and only have word of doctors that they will even get on at all. Part of the problem is all of the restrictions placed on donations to make them ethical make it very easy for America’s more criminally minded citizens to make a profit on human tissue (Carney). The system of donating blood, organs, and bones anonymously is not perfect. There is still a desperate need for these commodities, and even though people cannot pay for their donated tissue, they do still pay in the long run. After all, medical services are by no means free, or even cheap. In

Let image and put your self in a situation that you have a serious disease and your life depends on getting an organ such as kidney or liver, I ensure that you are willing to pay for one if you afford to do it. According to David Holcberg, “and if you could find a willing seller, should not you have the right to buy it from him or her”. In some extend, it is similar to a business or a contract, a person offer to buy something and someone can accept it, certainly both side have intention to do it. Everybody has the right to live and if they are not allowed to buy cure for their sickness, their right is forbidden, isn’t it? Desires to live is the nature of human being, in any circumstances, they still try to live. However when they are waiting for an organ for a long time and this demand is not satisfied so their only hope now is buying from other person and it seems to be too ruthless to forbid them to have the right to make a “contract” to buy a kidney or liver. As the result, if the market for human organs is legalized countless people would be saved and many individuals could have a better life. However, many people argue that it should not be done due to some ethical and social matters.

     In the United States, organ sales are illegal, and conducted only on the black market and with either unlicensed or underhanded doctors performing the operations. The law prohibiting selling organs is there primarily to protect a person’s life and “pursuit of happiness.” What happens when people get paid for donating organs? A human being only needs one lung and one kidney; many people would endanger their health by donating organs to get money. A booming industry of organ sales would emerge, with some people stooping to violent means in order to forcibly acquire more organs to sell and get rich off of.

The legalization of organ sales has been proposed as a solution to two distinct problems. The first is the problem of illegal organ trafficking and the second is the problem of inadequate supplies of organs available for transplants. Gregory (2011) outlined the case for legalizing organ sales by arguing that the current shortage of organs fuels a black market trade that benefits nobody except criminals. He further argues that such a move would add organs to the market, thereby saving the lives of those who would otherwise die without a transplant, while delivering fair value to the person donating the organ. There are a number of problems with the view that legalizing the organ trade is beneficial. Such a move would exacerbate negative health outcomes for the poor, strengthening inequality, but such a move would also violate any reasonable standard of ethics, by inherently placing a price on one's life and health. This paper will expand on these points and make the case that we should not allow people to pay for organs.

When it comes to the sale and trade of organs, it is an issue that has been ongoing for many decades. Today, the biggest argument is the black market and how much it has increased in the United States as well as other countries in the world. Although many people feel the government should regulate the trade of human organs so that the sales within the black market would decrease, or better yet, be demolished. Why are there laws that make the sale of blood, eggs, and semen legal but none about saving a life by selling an organ? American will continue to sale their organs illegally and secretly until the government considers legalizing it. The sale of organs should become legal by the government because selling the organs legally could mean that donors could be paid for organ donations, it could help save more lives, and the organ shortage in America will be greatly decreased with the help of well-fit and willing donors.

The simple answer is personal morality. People are concerned with other people's safety, so when they catch wind of someone selling their organs to the highest bidder on the black market, they feel like it is their personal responsibility to step in. Selling your organs to the highest bidder doesn’t sound like the most pleasant option to an average citizen in America who for the most part has been financially stable. Will the same be said for a person who is struggling to survive in another

The black market receive their organs by illegal means and sell them at a lower price than people in need of those organs would in other countries. Scott Carney wrote in his book “The Red Market” how the black market and organ brokers receive the organs they sell. He also shows how much they sell for and how much the same organs would be in other counties. Scott tells his readers of how people illegally extract and sell organs and tissues such as: blood, hair, corneas, hearts, liver, kidneys, eggs, plastinates, womb rentals, ligaments, bones, skin, and skeletons. Most of which came from Chinese prisoners and the deceased around the world. According to Scott, skeletons are illegally from indian graves, Ligaments, bones, corneas, and skin illegally come from Mortuaries. Hearts, Kidneys, Plastinates, and other organs can be illegally obtained by executed prisoners, and Chinese prisoners. There are many ways for organ brokers and black market merchants receive and sell illegally obtained organs. Sally Satel’s article is mostly about China and their illegal organ trafficking businesses. “China’s black market is why paying patients - citizens as well as foreigners - can get a new kidney or liver in a matter of days or weeks.” Sally later states that some patients that live in countries without a black market venue wait up to a year or even longer. She reinforces this