86,000… That is how many people waited on a list for an organ transplant. In 2003, fewer than 26,000 organ transplants were performed. That leaves 60,000 people waiting, wishing they could be healthy. (Cherry) More than likely, the person will die because they will not have been able to receive an organ. People need organs in order to function and survive in this world. Someone with a bad heart is not being rude or evil for asking for another; it could be a person who is young and full of life. Maybe someone needed a kidney and it was not his fault that his stopped working. Kidneys are important, because their function is to keep the blood flow stable, which allows a person to stay healthy. Without a kidney, a person could become extremely ill, or,
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People can get chemo treatments for cancer. That is totally acceptable in society, yet if a person needs an organ it is controversial and currently illegal. What if all medicine was banned? People are depriving others of a service. The sale of organs should be legal. There should be some rules and regulations regarding medical necessity. Living donors are shown to be almost half of the kidney transplants in the United States. If this were going to be legalized, people would have to realize that what they were doing was from the goodness of the heart, and not just for money and greed. The two things human organ sale opposes or contradicts are human dignity and that a market-based approach would be wrong. If someone lives in America, they should have the right to do what they want with their own body. (Petechuk) The economy would also begin to get regulated with all the money going to the government, so it benefits both the recipient and the economy. In the end it would help everyone. Prices on manmade goods would start to decline, the government would start to pay off debt, and less innocent people would be dying of organ
People can get chemo treatments for cancer. That is totally acceptable in society, yet if a person needs an organ it is controversial and currently illegal. What if all medicine was banned? People are depriving others of a service. The sale of organs should be legal. There should be some rules and regulations regarding medical necessity. Living donors are shown to be almost half of the kidney transplants in the United States. If this were going to be legalized, people would have to realize that what they were doing was from the goodness of the heart, and not just for money and greed. The two things human organ sale opposes or contradicts are human dignity and that a market-based approach would be wrong. If someone lives in America, they should have the right to do what they want with their own body. (Petechuk) The economy would also begin to get regulated with all the money going to the government, so it benefits both the recipient and the economy. In the end it would help everyone. Prices on manmade goods would start to decline, the government would start to pay off debt, and less innocent people would be dying of organ