There are many pros and cons to this argument.
Currently is there a huge demand for human organs, and the legal supply does not meet the demand. Sick people are dying when they could be saved. By creating a legal market, this market could meet the demand and stop unnecessary deaths. At the same time, the underground human organ market, which uses bad doctors, and bad equipment would be eliminated.
However, evidence shows that when people can make money by giving organs, donations stop; people do it to make money and not out of the goodness of their heart. It is usually the poor that do, not realizing the full potential of losing an organ. Organ thieves may thrive now that there is a legitimate market for it. If there is a market, it may be only the rich who can afford the now available demand.
What do you think? Should selling human organs be legal?
2007-02-27 02:31:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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2007-02-27 02:37:43 · update #1
I don't think so. The biggest reason is the thought that organ thieves would now have a viable market.
I WOULD like to see a mandate to donate organs unless strict religious doctrines disallow it. Hard to prove and hard to enforce.
The spirit behind your question is valiant.
2007-02-27 02:35:51 · answer #1 · answered by Liberty Belle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you go into a hospital for a organ transplant you are buying a organ anyways. Someone is getting paid for it. Not the person who donated the organ-but the owners of the hospital and the doctors doing the operation.
Why should they make all the money from it? Does anyone question if what they are doing is morally right or wrong?
2007-02-27 10:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Put it this way. If you had a 6 year old daughter. She needed a kidney transplant. Wouldnt you pay ANYTHING to save her life? Would you concern yourself with the moral issues of where that organ came from and if it was right to buy it?
Say for one reason or another that no American doctors would do the operation. Would you be willing to take her out of the country to maybe China or elsewhere where you can pay for the organ and to have the operation done, to save your child?
I would.
2007-02-27 10:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
something needs to be done.I don't know the answer though.but your on the right track.their will always be illegal things done when it involves money.their needs to be a way to sell organs if their your own .yes your right.But as lot needs to be worked out.with your plan.
2007-02-27 10:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Transplant doctors do not get paid on a 'per-surgery' basis - they receive a yearly salary. No one questions if it's moral that they do transplants because they are giving people a new lease on life - I see nothing immoral about that.
Get your head on straight Peter Griffin.
2007-02-27 13:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by keengrrl76 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
becoming gravediggers and robbers and stealing from people who are very much alive and did not consent is a problem and unacceptable
2007-02-27 10:40:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋