Organ Donation Argumentative Analysis

When looking at the article you are fully able to comprehend the needed reform and readjusting of the way organ donation occurs. In the article it starts off with the fact that in the status quo currently there are thousands of Americans alone waiting for necessary and life saving organ transplants, and for some the transplant never occurs, due to a lack of organs, leaving many people to succumb to death. The article goes onto explain that the reason for these shortages is the fact that their is no legal market for for human organs. Currently as it stands, people before they die give consent for their organs to be harvested and sold after death. The problem with this is that it creates and limited fixed quantity of organs available for donations …show more content…
The author goes onto to give an example of how this system could work by explaining: the person could specify where they want this money to go when they are close to death and then a firm would emerge to purchase the organs and resell them for profit. Many objections have been raised to this argument, but three substantial ones stand out: the moral argument and that it would ration the available organs. The moral argument is essentially that we would be selling organs like gold or wheat would essentail objectify our bodies turning them into a commodity, which in turn diminishes the specialness of human life. The other, stronger, argument is that this market would only benefit those who can afford it leaving those who are poor or uninsured to be unable to purchase and afford necessary organs. The final argument is that this market would significantly increase the price of medical insurance because these companies would have to now pay market price for these organs. The article ends with even without this legal market, their is the billion dollar black market and if we create a legal market it will drive down the price of the