Organs for Sale????????

No! I do not believe organs should be able to be sold at random.  Allowing people to sell organs on an open market would also allow huge slips in medical safety.  At the rate that patients would demand to sell organs, physicians could not provide a service to aid them in their goal in a safe and hygienic manner.  Also, this would provide a weakness in security for organs donated.  Not only could people potentially sell organs that were of a sketchy background, but also use these organs to target groups of people.  This could almost be considered a new form of terrorism.  By selling organs that are infected by different diseases, people who want to harm others can do so in more discrete and protected manner.  Not only could this situation cause a health problem for those who accept donor organs, but also it could also deeply impact the people who donate parts of their bodies.  By allowing people to sell tissues such as kidneys, skin or bone grafts, etc., donors could cause themselves harm when they contract an illness or become injured and need the parts that they sold for a profit.

         After reading the article my opinion stays the same.  I do not believe that allowing people to sell their organs will help as much as it will hurt people.  When donors think of lives they will save, they tend to overlook the fact that they can potentially risk their own lives.  I do agree that people should be able to take control of their own bodies and do what they want with what they own and are entitled too, but the ethics of this situation concern more than just the people donating organs and those whose lives they are saving.  Offering compensation for organs would not allow these transplants to be considered “donations,” but rather as income.