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This 10 page paper discusses the ethics of living donors selling organs. Argument states that people should be autonymous and having informed consent be allowed to sell organs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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human body, with its countless pathways of nerves and veins is unlike any other vehicle in existence. When it breaks down, there is no warehouse where parts may be ordered,
no catalog to place a request. Many have argued that the sale of body organs should be allowable because it provides an ample supply of much needed organs for transplantation.
In the long run it would seem that the whole controversy surrounding this issue is the same as for other hot debates. Is a persons body theirs to do with
as they please, or is it not? One has to argue that based on the Constitution, ones body is indeed his own to govern as he/she sees fit and if
that includes selling ones kidneys, then one should be able to do so. Most people cringe when one talks about selling an internal organ to a medical institution. Ideas
of body factories and other gruesome stories always surface. However, to the millions of people who are facing a slow death without chance of reprieve, the thought that they might
get that kidney that could save their life is a very real and vibrant hope that they carry. "The commonest objection to kidney selling is expressed on behalf of the
vendors: the exploited poor, who need to be protected against the greedy rich. However, the vendors are themselves anxious to sell, and see this practice as the best option open
to them. The worse we think the selling of a kidney, therefore, the worse should seem the position of the vendors when that option is removed," says J. Radcliffe-Richards in
his paper on the matter(Radcliffe-Richards 1998). His point is a valid one. In the matter of kidneys, where most donors have two working kidneys and can survive with only one,
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