If there was a statistic that backed up organ legalization as far as how many lives would be saved per year, would it be immoral for a person to be in approval of legalization? Miriam Schulman, the director of Markkula for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, who wrote Kidneys for Sale: A Reconsideration, believes it goes far beyond saving lives. Anthony Gregory, a research fellow and student programs director at the Independent Institute, and the author of Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help Save Lives, End Violence, has similar beliefs as Schulman. Both authors explain how legalizing does not only benefit the rich, but can also benefit the poor as well in other ways; what the need is to what is actually available, such as how many kidneys are available to how many are actually donated; and explains what the people who…
Abortion laws will always be seen as a controversial subject. In Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and John Donahue discuss the correlation between crime rate and abortion laws. They dismiss other factors such as gun control, proactive policing and increased incarceration rates and instead focus on the theory that Roe v. Wade played a greater role in crime rate fall. In 1973 Roe v. Wade ruled anti abortion laws unconstitutional.…
Joanna MacKay says in her essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives, that “Lives should not be wasted; they should be saved.” Many people probably never think about donating organs, other than filling out the paper work for their drivers’ license.…
You would think that compensating people for their organs would help the shortage and encourage capitalism. After all, United States is built on the free enterprise idea. Create and regulate a free market “in all aspects of organ and tissue procurement.” The free market will be able to match goods and services with those who need them. The free market would also be able to compensate the donors at fair market value and also keep their liberties intact.…
Molly O’Brien Expository Writing Assignment #2 The Debate of Organ sales In MIT student Joanna Mackay’s article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” she focuses on why organ sales should be made legal. She researches information about how people are dying due to minimum organs, third world donors, moral issues and the advantage to government regulation to argue her point that organ sales should be available if one desires. Joanna's presents how people are dying and suffering from the lack of organ sales.…
In both cases it is helping both parties, the donor and the patient. If one is to the sell their own organs in most cases it is due to the fact they are in need of financial help, while the patient receiving the organ is going to benefit from it. My reaction to their being multiple solutions to this situation was more of a question. I wondered why if there are ways to fix a problem why not take action on it, to make it legal internationally. The black market goes way beyond this case.…
The black market has valued human organs at five thousand dollars each, so they report. They suggest sales of organ may be for itself. Some people who disobey the laws are increasing to a large scale number. On the other hand, there are those who believe that it might be better to legalize the sale of…
Organ Sales Will Save Lives In the essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna Mackay, kidney failure is the main topic. In the thesis Mackay says “Government should not ban the sale of the human organs, they should regulate it.” It is supported by the evidence it will save lives. 350,000 people in America struggle with this situation each year.…
RECONSTRUCTION Barbro Björkman argues that it is morally permissible to donate, but morally wrong to sell, organs (461). To do this, Björkman relies on two perspectives of virtue ethics. One being the Aristotelian approach that states that moral virtues are virtues that “help us flourish as human beings.” The second being a modern approach that states that a virtuous person does “what is admirable to do” (462). By defining these two perspectives of virtue ethics, Björkman comes to the conclusion that, given a choice, a virtuous person would donate their organs, not sell them (464).…
This is taken away from the possibility of saving people’s lives. Some people do not even know what actually happens to organs when a person dies. Even after doing research it still can be very confusing on whether organs are needed after death.…
My focus are the reasons for organ shortages. The weakness may reflect desperation and compatibility of organs. In addition, the poor and independent individuals are vulnerable to competition, and incentives for profitability. The primary sources are all scholar peer reviewed articles base on the cause and effects of organ shortages. The second creditable resource is to expose how organ shortages can be caused by various reasons that correlate to the cause more than the outcome of resolving the issue.…
Sam Vaknin portrays a grim picture of the current black market trade in human body parts. Those who sell their organs are usually individuals in developing nations in extreme poverty who make very little from the sale, while those who transport the organs usually make a fortune reselling the organs to recipients in rich, developed countries. Part of the organ trade involves the abduction of individuals, including children, and the theft of their organs. Vaknin applauds the willingness of the American Medical Association to investigate "the effects [that] paying for cadaveric organs would have on the current shortage" of organs. He concludes that the current international ban on organ sales has produced the black market trade, and it would be "better to legalize and regulate the trade than transform it into a form of organized crime.…
The U.S. should not allow a free market because of the factors that come along with it. One can look at this in an economic level, spiritual level, and also a personal level. Both articles list many facts that can make one choose their side. For instance, why wouldn 't one want to sell his or her organs? One would be making money and saving a life.…
Auriana Ojeda. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Paying People to Give Up Their Organs: The Problem with Commodification of Body Parts."…
Second chances at life do not come around every day and they do not come without a price. Organ transplants have been a life-saving solution for those with failing organs. Around 121,000 people “are waiting for an organ, and 18 will die everyday while waiting.” In the United States, organ donation has been one way of saving many lives but along with it came many restrictions. The waiting list is endless and there never seems to be enough time when the chances of resuming life are low and the demand and risks are high.…