sale of human organs

The Sale of Human Organs should be legalized. 1. Legalization of human organs will save lives. A. The ban on organ sales for transplant has created a large and growing shortage. Williams 14 many individuals die waiting for transplants due to an insufficiency of organs, more than 122,000 individuals are wait listed, the current system relies on altruism of donors B. other efforts to increase donations fail - (BEARD 08), a series of policy designed to improve the system"s performance.Continue to maintain the basic zero-price property of the altruistic system. As a result, the likelihood that any of them, even in combination, will resolve the organ shortage is remote. At least seven such actions have been implemented and all have failed C. shortage means many will die BEARD 08 more than 80,000 lives have now been sacrificed of our so called altruistic system.the pain, suffering, and death imposed on the innocents pales in comparison to what lies ahead if more fundamental change is not forthcoming. 196,310 patients are conservatively expected to die by 2015 as a consequence of the ongoing shortage D. Organ sales would be the most effective way to solve the transplant shortage Becker and Elias 14 The most effective change would be to provide compensation to people who give their organs Paying donors for their organs would finally eliminate the supply-demand gap. In particular, sufficient payment to kidney donors would increase the supply of kidneys by a large percentage, without greatly increasing the total cost of a kidney transplant Advantage 2 illegal market A. The US ban on sales has created an international illegal market Hughes 9 A thriving global market in human organs has resulted from U.S. policy banning organ sales. The illegality of the organ trade is insufficient to discourage many of those faced with the possibility of dying on an organ waiting list, and "transplant tourism" has become its own industry. The lack of a regulated organ marketplace in the U.S. has resulted in exploitation of the poor throughout the world. B Trafficking for organs is widespread - Kendrick 12 Organ removal is quite real and widespread. . More frequently poor and desperate people are lured by false promises C. illegal markets is a threat to human health = Kelly 13 Because governmental disease control agencies do not monitor underground organ trafficking, recipients risk contracting infectious diseases like West Nile Virus and HIV. Transplant tourism also harms global public health policies. transplant tourism and broader medical tourism facilitate the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Because such bacteria are frequently found in hospitals, tourists are easily exposed and transmit these unique strains across borders D. Increasing reliance on the illegal market means the threat is serious - Franco Pareses 14 More transplantation procedures are being performed annually, resulting in an increase in, there has been a growing identification of tropical infectious diseases occurring in transplant hosts in endemic and non-endemic settiing Infectious Disease risks extinction - franca et al 13 infectious diseases remain a strong challenge to human survival. An important feature of infectious disease is its potential to arise globally, as exemplified by known devastating past and present pandemics such (HIV). in addition to reemerging diseases like dengue fever, the concerns about a global epidemic are not unfounded The availability of organs in the US would dry up demand in the illegal market Upchurch 12 By increasing the supply of available organs in the United States citizens would have less reason to travel elsewhere. If demand dried up transplant tourism in these countries would take a major hit. but presumably American citizens make up a substantial percentage of the tourist patients. Most of those organs ended up transplanted into American citizens. If you look at the impacts that we solve for: Life and extinction I see no other ballet than an affirmative ballet.