Argumentive essay on the sell and donation of human organs

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Organs as a Gift and a Form of Business
The field of medicine has been continuously working towards achieving goals for humanity. The goals of this field mainly involve pain relief, maintenance, and promotion of good health, disease prevention, and overall improvement of a patient’s quality of life (Callahan, 1998). One of the advancements in the modernization of the practice of medicine is organ transplantation, which now opened and made way for organ selling and donation. I will argue in this paper that while many lives will benefit from the selling and donation of organs, it will still not outweigh the ethical issues and problems that it will be bringing to a human person and the community.
Organ transplantation is necessary for those patients who are experiencing organ failure or those who have damaged an organ due to trauma or disease. This is considered as one of the greatest advancements in the field of medicine especially in improving and prolonging the lives of those who are experiencing problems with one system only but is otherwise healthy. The procedure involves the acquisition of a donor organ from another human body to be removed and transferred to the recipient’s body (“Human Organ Transplantation”, 2013). The most in-demand of the organs is the kidney, followed by the liver, and the heart, respectively (Abouna, 2003). Organ donations can come from both living beings and cadavers, then a process of checking the compatibility of the organ to its receiver is done, to make sure that the donated organs will be allocated to the best candidate.
There are policies regarding the donation and acquisition of organs for transplant, because of the widespread demand for organs worldwide. The only country where organ selling and buying is legal is in Iran, while all the other countries do not allow the business to take place between an organ seller and recipient (Ahmad & Iftikhar, 2016). The countries where it is illegal to sell human organs depend on altruistic donations, wherein the donor freely decides to donate anonymously with no intended recipient. This system of organ donation does not help a lot in bridging the gap between the number of names on the waitlist to the number of donors, which still results in the unethical practice of organ selling and donating.
The scarcity of organ donations from altruistic means led to the presence of illegal transactions of organ selling and buying in black markets. Buying and selling organs is beneficial for the patients and recipients which will increase the number of organ donations but this kind of business promotes the exploitation of the poor who require money. Aside from this, it also tends to increase crime rates because the recruitment of donors is done by force, coercion, fraud, kidnapping, and the likes for the removal of their organs. These countries that are most involved are Mexico, China, India, United States, Kosovo, South Africa, and Israel, playing different roles, whether as the origin or destination country, in organ trafficking (Bowden, 2013). It has become a growing danger, especially to vulnerable ones like children and women, that ...