The article, Complications, discusses the moral and ethical issues with the sale of organs.

In the article, the systems of several countries are cited, including Iran, where the sale of organs is legal, Israel, Turkey, India, Russia, China, and Iraq all have very loosely enforced laws on organ sales. Religion plays a serious role in this, as nations with a large religious population tend to have low donation rates, forcing people that need organs to look to other sources. Organ sales today are controlled by black market dealers who get the organs from people for very cheap because they have no choice, and then they sell them for ridiculously high prices. This system works for no one, meanwhile people are dying in droves waiting for organs that will never come due to societal stigmas. This system, to me, makes no sense at all. Also, with the quality of the pool of donated organs available it is often safer to buy one on the black market than wait on the list. The article, The Made-to-Order Savior, documents a disturbing new trend where people are having a child to get necessary organs, tissue or stem cells to keep another child alive. It tracks the story of two families, sometimes in grim detail, one that had such a child in order to save their child, and another family that tried to but failed and had to get an organ from a less well matched stranger donor. Both children got organs, but the one that got an organ from its newborn sibling has a significantly greater chance of survival. The article really shows the hardship of having a child with such a terrible condition as Fanconi, and despite my inhibitions, at the end I was questioning If I could really blame them

I do believe it is ethical to sell ones organs, as long as it is fair for everyone and regulated so no one gets the short en of the stick. However I d still believe that people should donate their organs and not expect pay, as we live in a world where Americans gives the smallest percentage of their income to charity than any of the other developed nations. While it may be immoral to some, or even unethical, people have to get paid, its the same with prostitution, people are going to do what they have to do so why not make it as safe and beneficial for them as possible. Making it illegal only makes it more dangerous for them and less profitable for them as all of the money goes to the middlemen (pimps for organs). Forcing ones morals on another to their detriment is in my opinion is wrong, so stopping someone from selling organs they dont need to help others is only hurting everyone for the sake of your moral high ground.

I think the sale of organs should be permitted but strictly regulated, with people selling them to a central (possibly government) agency that will regulate prices and procedures making sure all the organs are good, protecting both buyers and sellers. This would make organs more available, lowering prices, but due to the replacement of the seedy outlaw middleman with a central agency, the donors will also get more of the profit. I dont think paid donors should get priority on organ lists, as they are already compensated for their sacrifice, but people who actually donate their organs for no compensation should get priority. I think the facilitators of the organ trade should be paid, but not any exorbitant salaries like those on Wall Street, I think the facilitation agency should be government run, creating jobs with a good salary but removing gross profiteering from people selling parts of their bodies.

I think that with a legal organ sale system, organs would be more available for everyone taking the hardship an waiting out of finding a donor. Organ sales might even be covered by insurance companies, or Medicare and Medicaid, but with so many more organs available from people who dont want to donate but are willing to sell, the price of the organs would likely be relatively low. I think for your money you should get one working organ, so failures would be replaced, but likely with money on the line and more organs available, there would be better matches available, decreasing the likelihood of a failure.

I think if our government fails to do its duty to its citizens then they should definitely look elsewhere. In my opinion in this case life is more important than ethics, as we are in a way we are sentencing people too death by not allowing organ sales. There may not be any viable answers to these questions, but I have certainly tried my best.

While I fid the idea of a made to order savior repulsive, I dont think we can really blame these families, as they are often left with no choice with the scarcity of organs and other needed things one might get from a sibling. As long as the parents care for he savior, I think it is okay, because kids are conceived for a lot of reasons, many of them, stupid mistakes. At least this way the childs birth had a purpose. I think it should be legal, but I would never encourage it. For me outlawing it would be like outlawing having kids out of wedlock, it just wouldnt be right. It is definitely immoral and unethical in many ways, but can saving a life really be too unethical? Again, as long as

the child is treated right and with love, then I dont see a problem, thats more than a lot of ids get anyway. If I were the kid conceived to save my sister I hope I would never find out, and if I did it would probably mess me up for a while, but I love my sister more than anyone in the whole world, so how could I be angry for long, I would actually consider it an honor for me to have kept such a valuable member of society alive. If I were the saved child I would feel forever indebted to the sibling, but I doubt they would make it out like I owed them anything, I would just try that much harder to be a good person and to treat them right. it could definitely change a sibling relationship, but if you really love each other what does any of that matter, you will continue too love and care for each other.

I think all people should be able to receive the same medical care regardless of citizenship. One thing I would never complain about is my tax money going directly to save someones life. I dont care if they had to sneak across the border to find a minimum wage job that nobody wanted to feed their family, they deserve care. Illegal immigrants pay taxes, in most cases just like everybody else, sales tax, the gas, tax, and in many cases even income tax. They carry a significant part of the tax burden in this country and are a boon to the economy. Refusing to care for these generally hard working people would be both immoral and unethical.

In Angels case he is a working man like everyone else and the government is going to pay for his care, just not the right care, which is completely ridiculous. 75000 times two years is way more than 100000, and that is just two years of dialysis, when

who knows how long he will live. It is down right stupid not to just let him get the kidney. He works, he pays taxes, and he has had a hard life, so we should disregard all logic when it comes to caring for him because he doesnt have a green card?

Organs should go to the first person on the transplant list unless they are going to a specific person like your brother or father. Otherwise it makes it unfair for people who are doing the things they should to receive organs. Also I doubt too many people are coming here just for health care, as our system is dysfunctional and expensive, where they can go to any other industrialized nation where there is universal heath care or socialized medicine, and get comparable if not better care for no cost without fear of being turned away.