Mrs. Matz
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Should It Be Legal To Sell Organs If your loved ones were faced with a life or death situation you would do everything in your power to help them. “The easy answer to this would be yes but thousands of people are dying every year because there just is not enough organs to be transplanted” (Donate Life California). There are hundreds of thousands of people in need of life-saving organ transplants, but the waiting list is so long, that human organ sales should be legal. This has the potential to allow patients to look for organs of a similar match, potentially saving their lives in a much shorter amount of time with an overall long-term reduction in medical costs. Why organ sales are illegal. Donors of blood, semen, …show more content…
Iran is the only country in the world with a system for buying and selling organs legally. Iranian citizens who want to donate can contact the Iranian Dialysis and Transplant Patient Association (DATPA) and undergo examinations before their kidney can be taken. “In return, donors get one year of free health insurance, a $1200 government subsidy, and $2000-$5000 from the recipient” (Boyer). This system was adopted in 1988, and within a decade it eliminated its list of patients waiting for kidney transplants, and wiped out the black market for kidneys which had previously existed. Getting a kidney in Iran is regulated, and the safe system turns out to be much cheaper as well, in the United State the average kidney transplant costs 260,000 dollars, while in Iran a kidney transplant only costs 9224 dollars (An Invitation to Explore Living Kidney Donation). In One concern of legalizing the sale of organs is that if the donor would be poor and then a lot of the poverty people would come to sale there organs and then they would have an abundance of organs. The majority of the recipients would be of the higher economic standing mostly the wealthy. Boyer explains that selling organs would bring a lot of the poor for the benefits, an order to make an argument of the sale of organs that the sale should not be sold to pay off debts and continue to struggle in poverty. In addition, to the sale of human organs has helped many …show more content…
“Trafficking in organ sales is growing so much like the illegal markets of weapons and drugs. The media has myths concerning organ trafficking since 1980’s” (Kelly). Human trafficking is most commonly known for the severe forms of violence, such as incarceration, rape, torture and sexual enslavement. But human trafficking does not stop with human beings. All over the world, the organs of human beings are being trafficked, sometimes with, and sometimes without, the consent of those to people they belong too. People are being forced to sell their own organs for a low price, or to middlemen, who make thousands of dollars from poor vulnerable people. The underground trafficking of organ sales makes up 10 % of the worldwide organ transplants, making between 600 million to 1.2 billion each year. The countries Egypt and Pakistan are center for the most organ trafficking. Patients from the United States and of the wealthy countries travel to the countries were they can buy organs in the market. Kelly Emily states in 2008 the authorities arrested a ring of doctors, nurses, paramedics and hospitals that had performed 500 illegal transplants on foreigners. There is also prevalent trafficking that involves the transport of human through the threat or force, or other coercion even the stealing of ones
English 120
Should It Be Legal To Sell Organs If your loved ones were faced with a life or death situation you would do everything in your power to help them. “The easy answer to this would be yes but thousands of people are dying every year because there just is not enough organs to be transplanted” (Donate Life California). There are hundreds of thousands of people in need of life-saving organ transplants, but the waiting list is so long, that human organ sales should be legal. This has the potential to allow patients to look for organs of a similar match, potentially saving their lives in a much shorter amount of time with an overall long-term reduction in medical costs. Why organ sales are illegal. Donors of blood, semen, …show more content…
Iran is the only country in the world with a system for buying and selling organs legally. Iranian citizens who want to donate can contact the Iranian Dialysis and Transplant Patient Association (DATPA) and undergo examinations before their kidney can be taken. “In return, donors get one year of free health insurance, a $1200 government subsidy, and $2000-$5000 from the recipient” (Boyer). This system was adopted in 1988, and within a decade it eliminated its list of patients waiting for kidney transplants, and wiped out the black market for kidneys which had previously existed. Getting a kidney in Iran is regulated, and the safe system turns out to be much cheaper as well, in the United State the average kidney transplant costs 260,000 dollars, while in Iran a kidney transplant only costs 9224 dollars (An Invitation to Explore Living Kidney Donation). In One concern of legalizing the sale of organs is that if the donor would be poor and then a lot of the poverty people would come to sale there organs and then they would have an abundance of organs. The majority of the recipients would be of the higher economic standing mostly the wealthy. Boyer explains that selling organs would bring a lot of the poor for the benefits, an order to make an argument of the sale of organs that the sale should not be sold to pay off debts and continue to struggle in poverty. In addition, to the sale of human organs has helped many …show more content…
“Trafficking in organ sales is growing so much like the illegal markets of weapons and drugs. The media has myths concerning organ trafficking since 1980’s” (Kelly). Human trafficking is most commonly known for the severe forms of violence, such as incarceration, rape, torture and sexual enslavement. But human trafficking does not stop with human beings. All over the world, the organs of human beings are being trafficked, sometimes with, and sometimes without, the consent of those to people they belong too. People are being forced to sell their own organs for a low price, or to middlemen, who make thousands of dollars from poor vulnerable people. The underground trafficking of organ sales makes up 10 % of the worldwide organ transplants, making between 600 million to 1.2 billion each year. The countries Egypt and Pakistan are center for the most organ trafficking. Patients from the United States and of the wealthy countries travel to the countries were they can buy organs in the market. Kelly Emily states in 2008 the authorities arrested a ring of doctors, nurses, paramedics and hospitals that had performed 500 illegal transplants on foreigners. There is also prevalent trafficking that involves the transport of human through the threat or force, or other coercion even the stealing of ones