Organ Trafficking Position Paper (Russia)

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.

The human organ black market perpetuates the growth of unsafe surgeries in countries prohibiting the selling of human organs. In order to resolve the secrecy associated with the selling of human organs and thus legalizing this, I propose that this be a topic discussed at length and voted upon with all countries thru the World Health Organization.

In these short paragraphs, the politicians and countries will discuss different political views on the topic: Organ Trafficking.

Throughout the world, people are beginning to live longer lives. From about 100 years ago, people’s lives have more than doubled, from an average of 34 years around the world, to an average of approximately 70 years today. Not only that, but the global population has gone from less than two billion to nearly seven billion people. While this may seemingly be a good thing, there are several problems attached to it. Due to poor diets, many people have to seek for organ donations. While some people can acquire their needed organs, many cannot get the organs they need. To supplement this demand, the black market has conducted the organ trade, highly focused in South-East Asia. In these countries, organ traffickers go to poor villages to exploit the desperate farmers living in those conditions. Although there are many questions about the organ trafficking, several important questions I aim to explore are how the organ black market in Asia work so efficiently, and what policies could be made to reduce the need for organ trafficking.

This book contains multiple chapters written by several authors discussing organ trafficking as a worldwide epidemic that needs to be stopped. The book discusses the topic of organ trafficking in general, focuses on the problem in the United States, specifically about the supply and demand issue, and then goes on to discuss the topic on a global level. There are a few chapters that discuss options to eliminate the problem of organ trafficking from what is currently being done in Iran, to who should have priority when receiving a transplant.

All of these recommendations suggest that there are various other measures which host and source countries can introduce without invoking the law or prohibiting such practices. However, many do argue that criminalizing the organ trade is the best method to avoid exploitation and protect the vulnerable individuals involved. The current approach in all countries, other than Iran, is to legalise the sale of organs. This, is the particular route that the EU continues to take. The debate supporting the justification of such prohibitions is vast. In the final section of this essay the arguments on both sides will be evaluated.

Human trafficking is one of the major problems that is facing Russia. And Russia is considered the largest country in the whole world. It is massively known for the origin and final destination of trafficked men, women, and children who are forced to labor. Trafficking is carried out mainly for the purpose of exploitation, which includes prostitution, forced labor, slavery, removal of organs and many others (human trafficking in and out of Russia). This is mostly because of the unbearable economic situations in the country and a punishment should be given to those who engage in human trafficking.

The worldwide shortage of organs means a price increase in the organs because of the high demand. The consequence to this dilemma is organ trafficking. Organ trafficking occurs in countries predominantly in southeast Asia and parts of the middle east. Organs are distributed illegally through forced donations and donations without getting consent from the donor. The infamous organ black market profits vendors who illegally merchandize. Dr. Debra Budiani-Saberi a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and F.L. Delmonico professor of medical science at Harvard, brings light upon the disregard of the donor after coerced donations made in the black market. The medical complications of the coerced organs tend to be baleful and

Health is everything, it is the sister of life and the enemy of death. Health cannot be bought or given, it is succeeded by pure chance and hope. A legal market for human organs does not guarantee health, while there are pure intentions present, more harm than good may be made. Although there is some economical benefits in establishing a legal organ trade, unjustifiable factors to the sale of human organs and dangers are also present. Transplantable organs should never be a good, and it should never have a price because it is inhumane to correlate a price on life.

The ways organ trafficking could be stopped is by enforcing the current laws in the Middle East and Central Asia to prevent sales from happening.

Throughout the 20th century, the views on life on others planet have drastically changed. In this era of economic recession, money becomes more important to all of us. However, people who are unethical may misuse their own or others’ life to gain money by selling human organs. Human organ trafficking is defined as a form of widespread organized crime where organs are obtained illegally or traded for transplantation purpose. Try to imagine, if your close kin is hovering around the edge of life and death, would you do your best to save and help them? The only answer will definitely be YES. You definitely will use up your power and energy to save them. Dr Manzano said that if our country is unable to solve the problem of organ trafficking,

There is a problem with sex trafficking in Russia. The government looks the other way of the problem or they get bribed to look the other way. The main issue is that Russia is in trouble. The government says they look the other way because it could hurt Russian reputation, even though sex trafficking is everywhere. People go to Russia-typically young women- to better their education or to get a better job and get more money. These women start in Russia and as soon as they get to the country they are “taken care of” by pimps who promised them something.The sex “industry” and drug trafficking are part of the second economy in Russia, although illegal the second economy still exists. Russian government officials typically look the other way in

I believe that United States needs to open the Russian Government’s eyes to how terrible and wrong. Even though this may be extremely difficult to completely stop immediately, I believe that with stricter law enforcement and a few years this can be stop. It would not be right for America to simply sit back and watch these terrible things happen to Russians and just people in general. The United States needs to step in to help Russia put a stop to human trafficking of any kind. I think that there are various things that we can suggest to Russia that they should do, such as creating and enforcing stricter laws, making a national plan against it, helping and supporting victims, and making sure traffickers face proper punishment

As mentioned in the introduction, organ trafficking can be seen as a violation of an essential human right. Upon further examination, organ trafficking also violates ethical principles and professional virtues.

The ever-escalating amounts of organ trafficking in China have reached an all time high with the number rising to 10,000 black market operations occurring annually (Gianotti). This equates to more than one transplant operation per hour with thousands of people being tricked or forced (whether by situation or poverty) into selling their organs for money or even having them stolen. China has a high rate of all forms of human trafficking that is continuing to rise as a gradually growing problem without anything to slow it down. Organ trafficking is not excluded from this, and China has become one of the most common places for black market organ selling and harvesting