Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Human organ trade, should it be allowed?

Human organs have long been used to save lives. People with liver or kidney failure have had their lives miraculously saved by a divine act of donation from someone.

Thus one have to question, if organs are so widely demanded, why not put them up on sales. Furthermore, we only need one kidney to survive, thus, the other one can be sold to help save a life.

However, I disagree on the sales or human organ. I feel that it isn’t ethical to be selling our body parts. If we really want to give, we should not take money in return. It should be given as a charitable act and not for greed.

Also, by putting organs for sales, the poor will be put in disadvantaged as the rich can just jump their queue and purchase the organs. In the past, people have to wait in line for their turn. Thus I disagree that the sales be legalized as everyone life is equally important and that people cannot jump the order just because they have money.

In conclusion, I feel that the ban on human organ trade should stay as it is morally wrong for us to be trading and selling organs like it is some kind of good. The best policy is still the waiting list format where people are put in a queue so that no one is put at disadvantaged.

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