Late night drives, sporting events, sleepovers, dates, all teenage experiences Dawson Corbett has been robbed off. This 16 year old Ottawa local has been waiting for a kidney longer than four years. He has been undergoing dialysis for two years, needing to be hooked up to the machine for ten hours in order to filter waste from his blood. A daily occurrence for this 16 year old teen because there have been no kidneys available for him these agonizing past four years.
Having Kidney failure means that your kidneys fail to remove toxins and waste from your blood, a serious health risk needing treatment. The two options available are dialysis, which is only a temporary fix and transplants. For every patient on dialysis the cost is around $60,000 …show more content…
Admittedly those who use the black market to buy kidneys tend to exploit the poor in developing countries and undergo unsafe procedures. However If the desperation to receive a kidney is taken away by a government regulated system the risks associated with the black market would lessen. The black market has had many cases where the proper medical tests and sterilization standards were not met. This lead to many deaths of those who gave and received organs. Regarding the immorality, the line between right and wrong is a blurred one, everyone interprets it differently. Those opposed think that selling parts of the human body devalues it. “To treat them [bought and sold goods] as commodities, as instruments of profit and use. But not all goods are properly valued in this way. The most obvious example is human beings”(Sandel, par. 28) While others think of it as selling part of their body in order to save a life and benefit their own. Arthur Matas from the University of Minnesota says “markets for eggs and sperm are harmless, kidney purchases can save countries money, and offering poor people cash for organs is no more coercive than offering them money to work in mines or join the army” (qtd in Saletan par. 11) By having government regulated systems the poor would not be exploited by the highest bidder and medical standards would be met to ensure safty in the
Having Kidney failure means that your kidneys fail to remove toxins and waste from your blood, a serious health risk needing treatment. The two options available are dialysis, which is only a temporary fix and transplants. For every patient on dialysis the cost is around $60,000 …show more content…
Admittedly those who use the black market to buy kidneys tend to exploit the poor in developing countries and undergo unsafe procedures. However If the desperation to receive a kidney is taken away by a government regulated system the risks associated with the black market would lessen. The black market has had many cases where the proper medical tests and sterilization standards were not met. This lead to many deaths of those who gave and received organs. Regarding the immorality, the line between right and wrong is a blurred one, everyone interprets it differently. Those opposed think that selling parts of the human body devalues it. “To treat them [bought and sold goods] as commodities, as instruments of profit and use. But not all goods are properly valued in this way. The most obvious example is human beings”(Sandel, par. 28) While others think of it as selling part of their body in order to save a life and benefit their own. Arthur Matas from the University of Minnesota says “markets for eggs and sperm are harmless, kidney purchases can save countries money, and offering poor people cash for organs is no more coercive than offering them money to work in mines or join the army” (qtd in Saletan par. 11) By having government regulated systems the poor would not be exploited by the highest bidder and medical standards would be met to ensure safty in the