How To Legalize Organ Transplants

The debate has raged on for some time now concerning the ethical issues surrounding the trade in human organs. In the US, the sale of human organs for any economical or other benefits is prohibited. However, this law has done little to stop the trade in human organs. There are a number of fundamental issues that the National Organ Transplant Act seems to have ignored. Banning of the trade in human organs has opened up channels that have enabled the black market for human organs to flourish. According to the World Health Organization,

More than 110,000 people are on waiting lists for organs they may not ever get in time (mantel). This has caused an organ black market in which people are trading their or other individuals’ organs for illegal money. In case making criminals out of normal people. In 2009, the FBI arrested a Brooklyn rabbi for illegal organ trade, he was buying organs from overseas for a mere ten thousand dollars and selling here in the black market for upwards of one hundred sixty thousand (Krauthammer). An organ trade of some sort needs to become legal and people need chances to be compensated for their organs. Also with the market becoming legal, patients will be in better hands pre-operation and post-operation.

It is an indisputable fact that under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, there is a larger demand for organs than there is available supply. As a result, people in need of kidney or liver transplants die every year while waiting. Under the current system, the only way to receive an organ transplant is either by having a family member selflessly volunteer to donate theirs, or by being put on a waiting list to receive an organ from the recently deceased. To combat this lack of supply, some in need of transplants desperately turn to the black market, paying enormous sums of money for organs that were more than likely taken illegally. Others die waiting for a transplant that was never realistically going to happen in time. In essence, the gap between supply and demand for organs is causing both a loss in quantity and quality of lives. However, changing policy to allow payments to organ donors would drastically reduce this gap, therefore decreasing wait time for organs and saving lives. The crucial step that must be taken to save these lives is to repeal the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 which prohibits the sale of organs.

In “Organ Sales Save Lives”, the author argues for the legalization and regulation of selling human organs, specifically kidneys, to those who need them. Her reasoning is that the laws forbidding this practice have enabled a black market that is harmful to both buyer and seller of organs. MacKay states that with no legally enforceable contracts and dubious procedural standards both parties in these transactions expose themselves to unnecessary risk. She claims that buyers can wait up to 10 years before receiving a kidney, with many dying before then, and sellers often do not receive fair compensation. MacKay believes that we do not have the moral right to try to stop those who live in abject poverty from selling a part of their own body to

With the increasing need of organs for medical treatment, illegal organ black markets have become more rampant. Under such circumstances, the public debate over whether the government should legalize the sale of living human organs is fiercer. In Joanna MacKay’s essay Organ Sales Will Save Lives, she states that the government should legalize the sale of organs, since the legalization would benefit both the sellers and the buyers. Moreover, to show the potential benefits for the sellers, MacKay provides and analyzes gains from different aspects that sellers may make if the organ sale were legalized. However, what MacKay has shown is still not the whole picture. By simplifying the problems, MacKay overstates the monetary compensation for the organ sale and underestimates the possible role of exploitation, risks to organ sellers and other ethical questions. As a result, the sellers would not benefit as much as she states, and her argument about the bilateral reciprocal consequences for both organ sellers and buyers after legalization would be incomplete.

Available became controversial. While the question of the dialysis machine is still controversial, the health system was caught in another ethical dilemma regarding organ transplantation. Organ transplantation is closely linked to the issue of cleanliness because patients with kidney failure can get an organ transplant as an alternative to hemodialysis. The issue is complicated by the fact Medicare is financed by organ transplant, and there are those who believe that the distribution of rare transplant is not right. There are thousands of terminal patients whose lives can be saved by organ transplantation, but there are no formulas of work that can be used to determine which of the thousands of patients will be given priority. It is left to the discretion of medical officers to decide who is worth saving. The ability to keep someone alive by replacing one or more of their major organs is a splendid achievement of medicine of the 20th century.

Alexa was on the waiting list for two and a half years, patiently and hopefully waiting for a lung that would never come. Alexa’s parents were relying solely on the donation process for their daughters life, but there is another, more dangerous way to get an organ. When families or individuals are tired of spending years on a medical waiting list with no hope left, they may turn to black market body parts. Universal organ shortages have catalyzed a thriving underground black market for organs, where people can purchase kidneys, lungs, eyes, limbs, and even hearts. This illegal trade has generated human rights abuses, public health disasters, and transnational crime. Not only does the black market hurt the economy by creating organized

Advancements in medicine are constantly offer new ways to prolong the lives of human beings. One of these important developments is organ transplantation, which has allowed people to trade out worn out organs for better parts. This idea seems ideal and offers a new lease on life for those in need. However, the regulation and distribution of organs has led to darker reality. Organs are in high demand with thousands of people on waiting list, with not nearly enough organs available. This shortage has leed to the trafficking of organs and although this is illegal the moral implications of selling body parts comes into question. R.R. Kishore possess a very interesting argument in defense of the

There are roughly seven billion people who live on the earth many people are healthy but, there are some who are sick. One of the main surgeries that are needed in the world is organ transplants more than one hundred twenty thousand people in The United States alone need organ transplants. Organ donation is a huge problem around the world, the need for organs is way higher than the organs donated. So, when there is a need greater that what is there that is when the black market comes into play. The black market is a terrible thing people with abducting children just for their organs, which then the black market goes and sells for over one hundred and sixty thousand dollars (Borreli, 2013). Even through all that there are still some people out there who donate their organs to help the people in need. Organ donation might not just be giving the recipients a new organ they might be giving them a new life. All thought there is not a lot of evidence there still quite a bit of it. The causes of the phenomenon are that the heart has memory’s stored in the organs, the kidney and liver have had a few cases on this cell memory theory and how does the cell memory theory work.

Out of fear and desperation, the steps implemented in the United States in matching organ donors to their organ recipients are ignored. Organ recipients, desperate for a lifesaving organ are seeking satisfaction and “have turned to unregulated sources of organs in third-world countries” (Bard, 2008). This desperate attempt to obtain the gift of life grows out of the frustration felt by many organ recipients who wait on organ donors lists, sometimes for years, for the perfect organ match (OPTN, 2015). For many organ recipients time is of the essence and they do not have years to wait, which is where the international illegal organ trade comes into play. Some statistics suggest “an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 kidneys are illegally sold globally

With the rapid development of science and technology, When people's organs fail, doctors will use organ transplants to replace end-stage organ failure with special treatment to help patients get rid of death. Typically，some countries use organ donation to help people to get a healthy body. However, according to the article written by Mark J. Cherry, “The shortage of organs is virtually a universal problem.” (Cherry, 2005) . Hence, a small number of human organs donations cannot meet the growing demand and a phenomenon that leads to the sale and sale of organs in society. Furthermore, Cherry said that “the purchase and sale of transplant organs from live donors are prohibited in many countries.” (Cherry, 2005). There are three main reasons the

The legal and ethical concerned such as autonomy, respecting the dignity and quality of human beings, non-maleficence, the methods of organ allocation and the cost of organ transplant. Since a lot of people will benefit from organ and tissue transplantation, and a lot of organs are damaged or wasted during the transplantation process, thus, the demand often exceeds the supply, many problems are raised related to the procuration and how to fairly allocated the limited organs. In addition, the worldwide shortage of organs also caused the trafficking for organ trade. According to the world Health Organization, “one out of 10 organ transplants involves a trafficked human organ, which amount to about 10,000 a year. Through the black market, the price of an organ may be above $160,000.” The traffickers who organized criminal network are benefited from reselling organs in a huge profit. Additionally, when doing surgeries through black market-affiliated medical provider, the transplant operation is dangerous to both donor and recipient, as the clandestine organ-sellers can’t get a favorable medical follow-up, surgeons might reuse the equipment to reduce costs. After kidney transfers to buys, they often catch hepatitis or

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.

In the United States, there are over one hundred thousand people on the waiting list to receive a life-saving organ donation, yet only one out of four will ever receive that precious gift (Statistics & Facts, n.d.). 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 110% in the last ten years (O'Reilly, 2009). As a result, some propose radical new ideas to meet these demands, including the selling of human organs. Financial compensation for organs, which is illegal in the United States, is considered repugnant to many. The solution to this ethical dilemma isn’t found in a wallet; there are other alternatives available

As of August 2017 about  116,000 men, women and children are added to the National Transplant waiting list. A list that gets longer every ten minutes but quickly balances out due to the twenty, daily, lost lives.. Organ sales has the potential to increase an individual's life span yet it is amongst some of the more popular topic in ethical discussions that exhibit a polarized debate with no compromising solutions. However Anthony Gregory’s,  “Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help Save Lives, End Violence” arranges a well exhibited persuasive argument through the support of ethos, logos, and pathos when showcasing the importance and urgency of  allowing someone another day past their life expectancy.