sell kidneys?

[Christ_empowered]

OK. In one of my Liberty University Online classes, we have to do a discussion board topic fairly often. I chose to do a little post on the black market, and as my example, I chose the sale of kidneys. In the US, such transactions are illegal--these regulations date back to 1984.

Do you think we should legalize and regulate the sale of kidneys? Or keep it illegal? My personal position is that the government has a right, and perhaps sometimes an obligation, to take a moral stance on such issues. Actually, any legislation I can think of is guided by some kind of moral framework. If we legalize kidney sales, we're saying that such behavior is OK as long we can regulate it and protect those involved. If we keep it illegal, we're saying that such behavior is repugnant to the point that it should be outlawed.

I say keep it illegal. There was a case in 2011 of a man in NJ who trafficked kidneys. Orthodox Jewish man, made about 120,000 per kidney (paid poor people in Israel about 10,000 per kidney). I think he's in Federal Prison now.

What do y'all think?

 

[Gary]

I say keep it illegal.

What do y'all think?

I say that too, plus an automatic life sentence with the stipulation that all usable organs be removed upon death and anything left to go to science research.

................or this.
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[Eugene]

Restrictions on the sale of body parts should be applied to all involved. That includes the doctors, hospitals, and legislators who profit in playing God to those receiving them.

The thought brings me back to the opinion I have on health issues such as abortions, its proponents with their lobbies, and done with the supposed benefit to the recipients instead of the money it supplies to clinics.

Transplants are very big business. The cost? Oh my.

http://www.transplantliving.org/before-the-transplant/financing-a-transplant/the-costs/
Estimated U.S. Average 2011 Billed Charges Per Transplant

Heart - $997,700
Kidney - $262,900
Lung - - $561,200

 

[reba]

Making things legal will not stop the black market.. ( check out the sale of dope in Colorado) many more poor people would be taken advantage of. Push the donation thing... Liver transplant saved my friends life.

 

[jasonc]

Making things legal will not stop the black market.. ( check out the sale of dope in Colorado) many more poor people would be taken advantage of. Push the donation thing... Liver transplant saved my friends life.

common sense, as legal car sales doesn't stop black market theft of a car that is sold after being either sold in one piece or for scrap parts.

 

[Kathi]

I say that too, plus an automatic life sentence with the stipulation that all usable organs be removed upon death and anything left to go to science research.

................or this.
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I say keep it legal too.

 

[Claudya]

Keep it illegal. Alive human organs are part of the original owner's life and humanity, and those two things aren't trade goods.
Also trading organs would favour people who are able to afford it (or "encourage" the poor and desperate to sell away parts of themselves). That would be like saying your life is worth as much as your bank account is.

Donations are a different matter though. If an organ is donated it's done without any payment to the donor so their parts do not become trade goods and thus the donor is not de-humanised.

 

[Eugene]

Trading organs would favour people who are able to afford it

From what I've read, the rich profit already in their ability to be put to the front of the line in receiving donated organs. Hey, let's restrict donating organs in person only to direct members of the donor's family. Those medical personal advocating or promoting the idea that they are there to help humanity are to work for no more than minimum wages, and any hospital receiving any manner of federal subsidy be required to donate their facility free of charge.

 

[reba]

Keep it illegal. Alive human organs are part of the original owner's life and humanity, and those two things aren't trade goods.
Also trading organs would favour people who are able to afford it (or "encourage" the poor and desperate to sell away parts of themselves). That would be like saying your life is worth as much as your bank account is.

Donations are a different matter though. If an organ is donated it's done without any payment to the donor so their parts do not become trade goods and thus the donor is not de-humanised.

exactly

 

[Kathi]

There is alot of politics in donation organs.Such is our world.

 

[reba]

A warm story about transplants
Our friend and her son were on gurneys ready and waiting for him to donate a portion of his liver to his mom..... We were saying our prayers .. in comes a nurse she asks .. Inge if it would be possible to put this surgery off to a later date... She is almost dead.... She asks why seems the transplant team was needed for a infant .. This grand lady says of course ...we went back next week.... She has been blessed with over 10 years now of time with her grandchildren..

 

[Kathi]

A warm story about transplants
Our friend and her son were on gurneys ready and waiting for him to donate a portion of his liver to his mom..... We were saying our prayers .. in comes a nurse she asks .. Inge if it would be possible to put this surgery off to a later date... She is almost dead.... She asks why seems the transplant team was needed for a infant .. This grand lady says of course ...we went back next week.... She has been blessed with over 10 years now of time with her grandchildren..

That is a cool story.

 

[AirDancer]

A warm story about transplants
Our friend and her son were on gurneys ready and waiting for him to donate a portion of his liver to his mom..... We were saying our prayers .. in comes a nurse she asks .. Inge if it would be possible to put this surgery off to a later date... She is almost dead.... She asks why seems the transplant team was needed for a infant .. This grand lady says of course ...we went back next week.... She has been blessed with over 10 years now of time with her grandchildren..

What testimony of unselfish proportions! Your friend was and continues to be blessed!