Sickness comes to everyone in life at one point or another. Many people live their lives in misery because of the need for another organ needed for them to have a better life. In society today, there are many different transplants that are done on a daily basis. With scientist and doctors diligently working hard to find cures and the means to help save lives the donation of human organs have become widespread. In this paper I will discuss a case of black market sales of human organs. Sales of human organs are illegal. Black market sales is the term used to describe these type of transactions. The case that will be discussed here is titled “Desperate Buyers, Desperate Sellers drive the global black market in human organs”. When people …show more content…
It is estimated that the sales of illegal organ trades start at around 100,000.00 per organ (Rucke, 2013). People that are desperate to have an organ transplant normally are the buyers of illegal human organ sales. For someone in dire need of an organ transplant, a willing donor holds the key to life (Cherry, Mark J, 1999). While many people are for human organ donation, there are many that feel human organ donation is a form of exploitation (Cherry, Mark J, 1999). The question still rises today of does the right to sell one’s body parts rest within the person or the government (Wilkinson, Stephen, 2003)? Should the government be able to tell someone …show more content…
were waiting for organ transplants. Of those, a few thousand are expected to die waiting for their organ transplants (rucke, 2013). Why would we allow death to come to someone that is in need of a heart or kidney to save their life? Is human life not worth more? I am for organ donation but I feel like the donation of human organs should not be done in a black market kind of way. Someone that is desperately in need of an organ may not even ponder where the organ came from? The most popular human organ that is sold on the black market is kidneys (Rucke, 2013). Kidney are the most popular human organs sold because people are born with two and can live a healthy life with only one (Rucke, 2013). The sale of a black market kidney sells for usually about 1000.00 (Rucke, 2013). Many Israelis give up their organs to the person that will pay the most money but then end up being victims of a scandal and left without their organ or money (Rucke, 2013). In 2009 the FBI found that people in Israel were buying organs for 10,000.00 and selling them for 160,000.00 (Rucke, 2013). The donors receive little to no money at all, while the groups that organizes they sale makes a very large
The selling of human organs for transplants is a highly debated topic in the healthcare industry today. The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 prohibits compensating organ donors for their donations. Over 100,000 Americans have kidney or liver disease, and are in need of transplants to survive. The average waiting time for a kidney transplant, once on the list, is 4.5 years, while, liver disease is less common with a waiting time of 430 days. Nonetheless, the fact is that there are not enough organs donated annually to meet these high demands. By creating a regulated market for buying and selling human organs, it would increase the number of lives saved, help families with expenses, and greatly ease the anguish that many sick individuals endure while in hope of a transplant.
In the world of medicine, there is no question that organ transplants are capable of saving lives that would otherwise be lost. However, a problem exists because not there are not enough organs available to meet the need. Buying and selling of human organs is illegal in most of the world, and this has resulted in the creation of a black market in order to help meet the demand. The black market consists of wealthy patients from first world countries using “brokers” to arrange for the purchase of organs from poor people in third world countries. Most of the black market activity has revolved on the buying and selling of kidneys; and there has also been extensive trading in other organs and human tissues.
“Many people in our village have sold their kidneys if you are hungry, what do you do? You do whatever it takes to fulfill your hunger and that’s what I did.” Many people just like this young individual have volunteered to sell their organs for quick cash. To provide for their family, to send their children off to college, or to even put food on the table. For whatever the reason may be, there are still causes and the effects of selling one’s organ through the black market that one needs to be made aware of, for example, by selling one’s organ through the black market doesn’t ensure that one will be provided with the best medical care and attention that one will need prior to surgery,
Organ donation is a key role in saving thousands of American lives. Without donation hundreds of people would die from improperly functioning or failing organs not strong enough to keep them alive. Organ donation is the process of giving an organ or a part of an organ for the purpose of transplantation into another person. Organs can be donated from both living and deceased donors, and can be donated from all ages. Unfortunately not all Americans are aware of organ donation and out of the ones that are, several are uncomfortable with donating for several reasons. This is causing organ shortages not just in the US, but all over the world. These shortages have led to the voluntary selling of one’s own organs, otherwise known as Organ Trafficking.
The National Organ Transplant act was enacted in 1984 as a free market for organs began to arise in America. Congress was concerned about the injustice that could arise from impoverished donors being pressured into selling their organs (Ci...
There are laws against the sale of human organs around the world, but limited enforcement of these laws. If the patient is willing to pay for an organ that would save and potentially extend their life, there will always be a black market for organ donation. In addition, if the donor is living in poverty or below, if an organ trafficking ring approaches this person with a promise to a gr...
Organ donations are crucial for people in emergency situations. For years organ donations have saved the lives of millions. The problem with people needing organs is that there are not enough organs to be supplied to everyone who needs it. There are many people who die because they are not able to obtain lifesaving organs. The need for organs exceeds the supply given. Thus, leading me to ask this essential question, “Should organ donation be a part of the market?” To support this question I have prepared three supportive claims, but since my answer is no my reasons will revolve around this argument. First, I will state why I do not agree with such a thing, and then I will support my claim by stating why it is so bad, and to end my paper I will state what place(s) legalizes trade.
Organ transplantation is an amazing accomplishment of modern science which grants the recipient a prolonged life. Sadly, today the demand for organs is not being closely met, leading to the world’s organ shortage. Thus far, solutions aimed to increase organ donors have failed, which seems to have lead ultimately to what is referred to as the organ trade. With the problem of the organ shortage people have become desperate, to the point where they have come up with the solution of removing their own organs and even the organs of people who have been trafficked in order to sell them in the organ trade. Not only an ongoing problem in the United States, the organ trade is a problem being faced all over the world. Imagine going out with friends but waking up in a
Since the National Organ Transplant Act was signed in 1984, it has been illegal to buy and sell human organs for transplantation. Even after this act was put in place, there is still an ongoing debate about whether it should become legal and about the ethics that come along with such a practice. This debate proposes the question, should the selling and purchasing of organs be legalized and is there a way to make this practice ethical? The answer to that question is, no! It should not be legal because the buying and selling of organs is unethical due to its ability to create an economic class war, lead towards exploitation of the poor, and cause the qualities of organs to decrease.
Even if organ sales were legalized, only a small group of poor people would actually sell their organs to make money. In MacKay’s essay, she regards poor people in third world countries as major resources for organ sales by stating there are poor people willing to do anything for money. Indeed, the natural desire of surviving would urge people to try every possibility to make money in order to maintain daily life and poor people are highly likely to be a major part of sellers. However, it does not necessarily mean poor people will really do everything as long as they could be compensated; every person has his or her bottom line for what they would do and what they would not do. Not all the poor would regard selling their organs as a proper way to make money. For example, S. M. Rothman and D. J. Rothman suggest in their article that as people in the modern society tend to have more acute sensibilities about the completeness of their bodies, organ sellers could suffer extreme shame in their community. For those poor who
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services report that more than 123,000 people in the United States need an organ transplant to save their life (Hall, 2015). Only 45% of American adults are registered organ donors while 21 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant (Wen, 2014). With the help of organ sales, it would be possible to help more of those who are waiting for organs to save or prolong their life. An organ sale is the selling or trade of human organs, tissues or body parts for transplantation, in return for financial compensation. When most people think of organ sales, they think of someone selling their organs for a profit to benefit themselves, versus someone who is a donor, who donates their organs or body parts to benefit those who need transplants. This creates a discrepancy between selfishness and selflessness. Why is the sale of organs selfish if selling an organ for transplantation is beneficial to both the donor and the
The commercialization of human body parts has been, over time, on the upward trend. Kidney failure being relatively on the rise, more and more people have a need and desire to boost their lives by kidney transplants. Since the human body can function effectively with one kidney, some people do not mind donating their kidneys for some consideration. However, does this not break the ethics code? Is it not reducing human dignity to monetary terms by placing a price tag on human body part? As the essay questions the morality and the ethics of this practice, the idea of black market kidney donations arise which is evidence of clear commercialization of the human life and exploitation of the poor.
For decades organ transplants have saved the lives of countless patients in need. However, over time, the gap between the supply and demand of donated organs has alarmingly widened. The shortage of altruistic donors raises the argument of whether the United States government should legalize commercial transplantation. Ethical discussions exhibit polarized debates of the topic, however, to efficiently save money and lives, the selling of organs should be legal.
Selling organs will saves lives in many different ways also. People are dying because they are illegally selling their organs in the black market or even selling there organs in insane prices to other people. As in Germany, it will coast around $3500 to donate a liver. But in other i...