There is a great deal of speculation of whether or not organ selling should be legal. Stephen Wilkinson states that organ sale is the selling of organs to give to another person, in the hopes of getting a paycheck. There are two ways to do this: paying people money for their body after they pass or to pay the patient’s family for their deceased loved ones’ organs (Wilkinson 2011). The United States has already developed a way to aid those who need organs receive a healthy one through a process called organ donation. Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person for transplantation into a person with the damaged organs and tissues, without giving the donor compensation. There are different kinds of organs that can be donated
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Any person who has understanding, liberty and competence has the right to autonomy. They have a right to decide what they want to do with their lives, even when they pass. According to Stephen Wilkinson, “people should be allowed to sell parts of their bodies if they so wish.” It is their body and they can do what they please with it. If the donor is choosing to do this in order to assist and save another person’s life and they are not being forced to do this, they should be able to do what they want with their body. Sam Crowe et al. explain in Increasing the Supply of Human Organs: Three Policy Proposals, that everyone has the right to freedom and if “individuals who believe selling a ‘redundant organ’ could improve the quality of their life should be permitted to do so.” However, due to this autonomy, it also raises the question concerning the integrity of the doctor. By a doctor allowing a patient to accept or offer an organ, he or she raises ethical issues on whether or not what they are doing is right. If a doctor becomes involved with the black market, it can cause he or she to lose their medical license and even jail time. By allowing the healthy individual to do the organ sale, the physician is going against the medical oath they swore to and violating the “core principle of medicine, ‘do no harm’” (Berman et al. 2009). When a doctor or a patient receives or offers money for an organ, they are putting a price on how much their organ is worth and degrading human dignity. Michael Shafer and Paige Comstock Cunningham state, “Whether the black market donor is paid $2,000 or $20,000 he or she is being used as a means to an end rather than being respected as an individual human being.” Certain people do not have enough money to buy an organ so
Any person who has understanding, liberty and competence has the right to autonomy. They have a right to decide what they want to do with their lives, even when they pass. According to Stephen Wilkinson, “people should be allowed to sell parts of their bodies if they so wish.” It is their body and they can do what they please with it. If the donor is choosing to do this in order to assist and save another person’s life and they are not being forced to do this, they should be able to do what they want with their body. Sam Crowe et al. explain in Increasing the Supply of Human Organs: Three Policy Proposals, that everyone has the right to freedom and if “individuals who believe selling a ‘redundant organ’ could improve the quality of their life should be permitted to do so.” However, due to this autonomy, it also raises the question concerning the integrity of the doctor. By a doctor allowing a patient to accept or offer an organ, he or she raises ethical issues on whether or not what they are doing is right. If a doctor becomes involved with the black market, it can cause he or she to lose their medical license and even jail time. By allowing the healthy individual to do the organ sale, the physician is going against the medical oath they swore to and violating the “core principle of medicine, ‘do no harm’” (Berman et al. 2009). When a doctor or a patient receives or offers money for an organ, they are putting a price on how much their organ is worth and degrading human dignity. Michael Shafer and Paige Comstock Cunningham state, “Whether the black market donor is paid $2,000 or $20,000 he or she is being used as a means to an end rather than being respected as an individual human being.” Certain people do not have enough money to buy an organ so