Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Organ Donation

The black market for organs is a debatable topic that have been discussed for many years. To receive money for organ donations is illegal in the United States and many other countries as well. This is all known as “Organ Trafficking”. One of the main things stopping this from becoming legal is the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act which states that you cannot get compensated for organ donation. Around 20% of kidney transplants worldwide comes from the black market. There are many pros to legalizing organ sales. Every year there are around 80,000 patients on the waiting list to receive an organ and only around 20,000 become available. The new argument is that people that donate blood, semen, eggs, and most volunteers for medical trails are almost all paid to do so. So why not apply that same idea to organ donation. More people would be willing to donate their organs if they knew they would get something out of it, sad but thats the truth. Most …show more content…
This would be unfair because it would help the wealthier people and would be a disadvantage to the poor. These operations done by the black market are unclean, potentially dangerous due to not being preformed by real doctors, and very unsafe. Another reason this could be a potential problem if made legal is that poor people would wind up selling there organs to relieve some of their financial problems. It has been mentioned that it is reasonable to allowed a kidney and liver market but it would be too risky as of right now for other organs to be considered. One of the major cons of this idea of an organ market is it would mean a huge change in the publics opinion and legislation. The idea of an organ market also violates all ethics which is a huge part of the medical field. “We shouldn't be commercializing parts of our bodies.” states by Professor Anthony Warrens, the dean of education at the London School of