Organ Sales
Organ Sales: Legalize for the Greater Good
Every day, numerous people across the world stop their lives for four hours to get hooked up to a dialysis machine at a hospital nearby. This machine helps to remove harmful wastes, toxins, excess salt, and water from their body because unfortunately their body cannot do so for them. These people wait on a list until they can one day receive a kidney transplant because kidney failure has resulted in their body not being able to clean their blood properly. More than 300,000 Americans have kidney failure and use dialysis daily and the statistics are only continuing to grow. I am going to argue that the best to solve this problem is to legalize the regulated sale of organs to better society as a whole. Organ sales should be legalized for two reasons: greater good of the society and to avoid exploitation of the poor as selling an organ could be the best option for the poor to make money. I firmly believe that organ sales should be legalized and I will explain the many arguments I have listed above. First off, the legalization of organ sales should be done only in the idea of bettering the society and the economy as a whole. This is based off of the utilitarian view that the extent of a good action is determined by the amount of happiness that can be produced. If organ sales are legalized the society would better because there would be more lives saved from the accessibility of the organs necessary. The statistics of the amount of people across the world that need organ transplants is horrendous however, if organ sales become legal the waiting list for transplants will diminish and eventually cease to exist. Some countries are evaluating the idea of organ sales, and some countries such as Iran has even made organ sales legal. Since Iran made the selling of organs legal, there has been no waiting list for kidney transplants since 2011. It has also been proven that live organ donations have a lower rejection rate than
Every day, numerous people across the world stop their lives for four hours to get hooked up to a dialysis machine at a hospital nearby. This machine helps to remove harmful wastes, toxins, excess salt, and water from their body because unfortunately their body cannot do so for them. These people wait on a list until they can one day receive a kidney transplant because kidney failure has resulted in their body not being able to clean their blood properly. More than 300,000 Americans have kidney failure and use dialysis daily and the statistics are only continuing to grow. I am going to argue that the best to solve this problem is to legalize the regulated sale of organs to better society as a whole. Organ sales should be legalized for two reasons: greater good of the society and to avoid exploitation of the poor as selling an organ could be the best option for the poor to make money. I firmly believe that organ sales should be legalized and I will explain the many arguments I have listed above. First off, the legalization of organ sales should be done only in the idea of bettering the society and the economy as a whole. This is based off of the utilitarian view that the extent of a good action is determined by the amount of happiness that can be produced. If organ sales are legalized the society would better because there would be more lives saved from the accessibility of the organs necessary. The statistics of the amount of people across the world that need organ transplants is horrendous however, if organ sales become legal the waiting list for transplants will diminish and eventually cease to exist. Some countries are evaluating the idea of organ sales, and some countries such as Iran has even made organ sales legal. Since Iran made the selling of organs legal, there has been no waiting list for kidney transplants since 2011. It has also been proven that live organ donations have a lower rejection rate than