Kidneys For Sale Argumentative Analysis

Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez offer their opinion in their journal “Kidneys for Sale”, people obtain the moral duty to save other humans if they have the ability to (n.d.). This is an argument that pro kidney sale proponents use frequently. They argue that this is everyones’ duty, and that they need to contribute what they have, in this case organs, to others for their survival. This market, so to speak, would entail healthy human beings selling one of their kidney’s to other human beings. And in that sentence the conflict arises; furthermore, selling human body parts is morally wrong to many. Yes, selling body parts can be considered morally wrong, but in reality this world is losing precious people to diseases that can be cured …show more content…
Dialysis is the filtration of unwanted water and waste from the human body, which is conventionally accomplished by the body automatically, but when a person has kidney disease his kidneys do not perform this task according to Christian Nordqvist (2015). Reality assures that living on dialysis for the entirety of one’s life is not pleasurable, and not economically possible for many. Patients that require dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive usually live most of their life on dialysis because of the increasing demand for kidney transplants. Unfortunately dialysis has extreme costs that are drawn out throughout their entire life if said patient is unable to locate an acceptable kidney. The average cost for one year of at home dialysis is approximately 30,000 dollars (Morrison, 2008), this expense is symmetrical with the income of a lower class homeowner. Along with kidneys, dialysis machines and time able to be spent on the machine are limited throughout the world. Particularly in smaller communities there are fewer medical facilities that can provide dialysis treatments to multiple people, this results in scarcity, which is an unlimited number of needs and wants which cannot be fulfilled with a limited amount of worldly resources. In smaller, less advanced medical facilities the dialysis machines can only provide treatment for a said number of hours each month. Seemingly, this decision could be interpreted as an easy matter, but many factors come into play quickly, such as patient age, progression of the disease, and financial standings. Dialysis is a temporary solution to a permanent issue, and the only way to eliminate the issue is for the patient to receive a kidney. A legal kidney market could solve the issues regarding dialysis, indeed this kidney