Inhuman Activity: Human Organ Trafficking
When I filled out a document before taking the written test at DMV, there was an option to ask for organ donation. At first, it made me wonder how the organ donation process works, then I did some research and accidentally read some articles about illegal human organ trafficking. Human organ trafficking is a painful social problem which a group of people trade human organs illegally.
There has been a significant disparity between the demand and supply of human organs. Also, the number of donors are limited; yet many patients are waiting for receiving proper organs. Therefore, it creates a basis need for black market trade in human organs. Human organ trafficking is a
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In fact, one of the organ trafficking victims is the poor people. Kidney is the most selling organ that can be removed and does not kill the victims. With little amount of money from organ selling, the victims cannot pay off the entire debt. According to Ana (2008), one kidney only worths approximately $2,500 - $3,000, whereas it is sold to the patient around $100,000 - $200,000. Obviously, the money that the victims earned from organ selling is much less than the value being sold to the transplant patients. Regarding to health issue, because of the lack of support from the missing organs, the victims’ bodies will get worse over time which leads to serious illnesses that can cost them their jobs. These poor and unemployed people choose to commit many crimes such robbery, drug dealers, murder, etc. At the result, the act of organ trafficking keeps the poor remained in debt and encourages crime …show more content…
Because of high demand, beside the volunteer donors, people will look for other resources, such as kidnaping and killing innocent people. In other countries, a patient needs to book a transplant organ whom has to wait for months or years to have a proper and the best fit organs with their body, but it only takes for few days in China. For example, there is a particular case of Rourou Zhuang, she travelled to China for a kidney transplant, after the operation succeeded, she has found out that the organ she just received came from person who had been killed. She said : “I was totally shocked to find out about the source, I also feel very sad I participated in that. So I thought I should tell my story to let the public know.” Some reports state that the number of homeless people found dead with missing organs is accountable for this murder criminal. As a matter of fact, this story terrifies people about kidnapping issue. People are more worried than ever before when they leave their house. Children and teenagers who are incapable to resist are the most vulnerable victim of organ trafficking. Kidnappers target the children on their way home from school. There are many numerous cases of children kidnapping; yet no location information is
First of all, we can assess issues concerning the donor. For example, is it ever ethically acceptable to weaken one person’s body to benefit another? It has to be said that the practiced procedures are not conducted in the safest of ways, which can lead to complications for both donors and recipients (Delmonico 1416). There are also questions concerning of informed consent: involved donors are not always properly informed about the procedure and are certainly not always competent to the point of fully grasping the situation (Greenberg 240). Moral dilemmas arise for the organ recipient as well. For instance, how is it morally justifiable to seek and purchase organs in foreign countries? Is it morally acceptable to put oneself in a dangerous situation in order to receive a new organ? Some serious safety issues are neglected in such transactions since the procedures sometimes take place in unregulated clinics (Shimazono 959). There is also the concept of right to health involved in this case (Loriggio). Does someone’s right to health have more value than someone else’s? Does having more money than someone else put your rights above theirs? All of these questions have critical consequences when put into the context of transplant tourism and the foreign organ trade. The answers to these questions are all taken into account when answering if it is morally justifiable to purchase
“Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna MacKay be an essay that started with a scenario that there are people who died just to buy a kidney, also, thousands of people are dying to sell a kidney. The author stood on her point that governments should therefore stop banning the sale of human organs, she further suggests that it should be regulated. She clearly points that life should be saved and not wasted. Dialysis in no way could possibly heal or make the patient well. Aside from its harshness and being expensive, it could also add stress to the patient. Kidney transplant procedure is the safest way to give hope to this hopelessness. By the improved and reliable machines, transplants can be safe—keeping away from complications. Regulating
Critics of kidney sales argue that impoverished people are more likely to sell their organs than the rich. (Matas, 2004) They claim that the practice of kidney sales is injustice since vulnerable vendors are targeted and that they may suffer from lengthy health problems after the operations which may eventually lead to the loss of jobs. (Bramstedt, 2010)
Organ donation started out as simply “donation” or the act by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift (Dictionary.com). A person is giving out of the goodness of their heart; donors did not expect anything in return for giving a part of them to help save a life. In Organ Grinders, Artie makes a living from selling she replenish able fluids such as, blood, plasma, and semen. Artie is asked in the book to give one of his testicles in exchange for money. He willingly agrees, and the operation proves to be a success in the book. This brings up the argument if it is morally ethical to sell your organs for a profit. Currently in most Western Countries including the European Union, The United States, and China, statutes have been put in place forbidding the purchase and sale of human organs (Cameron 724). Overall as a whole society looks at human organ sales as unethical and morally wrong.
The uncontainable despair of the weeping and screaming parents entering a room full of body bags containing the altered remains of their children. In a room drained with blood and surrounding fridges for the maintenance of the ejected organs, everything seems miserably surreal(“Children Kidnapped for Their Organs”). This is only one of the discovered cases of the daily dozens of people killed for organ harvestation. Adding up to ten thousand illegal operations in 2012 which translates to hourly sales (Samadi). These abhorrent acts add up as crimes against humanity which are triggered by a numerous amount of reasons; in order to stop these constant atrocities we must uncover the root of the causes.
By selling organs via the black market deprives humanity of this amazing opportunity. Stealing individuals of the right to choose by causing one to become persuaded by just another dollar sign is morally and ethically. The effects of the exchange of money for bodily organs will not decrease one’s debt, most people who consider selling their organ is quickly selling for a quick fix. Some have sold their organs, to send their children to school, provide housing for their family and more but many have left unsatisfied. This gentleman from Bangladesh explains the harsh and brutal ways that individuals in the black market, are taking advantage of poor people, without knowledge of the effects of organ surgery. “I thought they would take my kidney, but they said they wanted to take part of my liver,” said Mehdi Hassan, a farmer from Bamongram village who underwent the operation in 2009. (O’Connor 2014) This individual stated that he did not even know what a liver was, but was still led to complete the surgery just for money to survive. As human citizens, we should be appalled by the fact that the cause of the selling of human organs is inhumane and more people need to be made aware of the effects that this is causing thousands and their families members. In the HBO show, “The tales of the organ trade,” the journalist interviews a whole family only to find out that each member except the children has
This market preys on poor and impoverished areas and people, whereas if we allowed an organ market, there would be no need for buyers to turn to illegal activities. Also, not only would the amount of transplants go up in great numbers, but this would not halt donation either. A large part of donations, accounting for almost 31% of all kidneys transplanted, came from a relative or friend of a person in need (Harris**). By allowing a market, this brings more hope to someone who cannot find an immediate kidney match because friends or relatives are not feasible. From the influx of new kidneys available for transplant, this could also bring in better kidneys that had not been available before. According to Satel, “benefits will almost certainly increase the donor pool, as they have in other domains”, which is exactly what we as humans need (Satel 4). A market for organs brings about less death because it allows more options for those in
The biggest fear concerning if selling organs should be legalized is that poor or otherwise marginalized populations would be taken advantage of. As there is a high demand for organs and a low supply there will be large incentives for poor populations to sell their organs. Inequality when it comes to gender and race is also a factor worth considering, especially when it comes to altruistic donation. In Schweda and Schicktanz’s study, the German participants speak of living donors having to go through an obligatory psychological evaluation and in this financial pressure could be compared to for example family pressure when it comes to limiting the freedom of decision (Schweda and Schicktanz, 2009:5). These two factors are the most troubling aspects of living donation as they impede individual autonomy.
Major Points: Organ donation myths, Recipient Selection, Legislation and Policy, Current Trend, Let’s Pay Organ Donors.
Forced labor and prostitution are widely known about, but some of the less-known reasons have to do with forced marriages and organ trading. The black market organ trade is not just something that was made up for novels and movies. Kidneys, livers, and any other organs that can be taken and reused are up for grabs. Traffickers will often try to bully their captives into willingly giving up an organ for free. Some captors will actually offer to pay the donator for their organ, but that usually ends up with the “donor” getting paid less than was agreed upon, and they are still being held against their will. In some cases the victim is knocked out, operated on, and left without an organ or
People that are desperate to have an organ transplant normally are the buyers of illegal human organ sales. For someone in dire need of an organ transplant, a willing donor holds the key to life (Cherry, Mark J, 1999). While many people are for human organ donation, there are many that feel human organ donation is a form of exploitation (Cherry, Mark J, 1999). The question still rises today of does the right to sell one’s body parts rest within the person or the government (Wilkinson, Stephen, 2003)? Should the government be able to tell someone
In the United States, there are over one hundred thousand people on the waiting list to receive a life-saving organ donation, yet only one out of four will ever receive that precious gift (Statistics & Facts, n.d.). The demand for organ donation has consistently exceeded supply, and the gap between the number of recipients on the waiting list and the number of donors has increased by 110% in the last ten years (O'Reilly, 2009). As a result, some propose radical new ideas to meet these demands, including the selling of human organs. Financial compensation for organs, which is illegal in the United States, is considered repugnant to many. The solution to this ethical dilemma isn’t found in a wallet; there are other alternatives available to increase the number of donated organs which would be morally and ethically acceptable.
People consider trafficking to be only in the form of sex, but trafficking actually has many different categories. Human trafficking is defined as people who sell or trade their bodies, or other people’s bodies for different purposes like, forced labor, sex, forced marriage, and even organs. Trafficking of any kind is considered a crime in the United States and every other country in the world except Iran because it is a violation of human rights. Although trafficking is illegal, it still takes place all over the world and statistics say that trafficking brings in approximately 32 billion dollars of international trade per year. Out of all the different forms of trafficking, organ trafficking is the most dangerous. The compensation of organ donors was legal until 1984 when the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 was put into place. Many people turn to buying organs because there is a shortage of organs and some patients may be on the organ transplant list for years. Because there is such a shortage of available organs for transplantation, many people turn to buying or selling organs on the black market illegally. If trafficking was legalized with regulations, there would rarely be a need to use the black market. Even though the 32 billion dollars that the black market makes each year would rapidly diminish, the money would be spent in other places, and legally. Many people argue that a human life should be invaluable but by legalizing the trafficking of organs, the list for organ transplants would slowly disappear. If the sale of organs was legal with heavy regulations, many more organs would be donated; therefore, many more lives would be saved all over the world.
Organ Sale is the exchange of human organs for money. This topic is very debatable because some people view organ sales as morally wrong mainly due to the view that only the wealthy will be able to afford the purchase of organs. In addition, many believe those living in poverty will be taken advantage of because they need the money. The selling of human organs can be beneficial to everybody and should be legal. By making organ sales legal it will give individual donors a better financial life, create a safer environment for those who sell their organs, make organ transplants available to more people and most importantly will save many lives.
Selling organs will saves lives in many different ways also. People are dying because they are illegally selling their organs in the black market or even selling there organs in insane prices to other people. As in Germany, it will coast around $3500 to donate a liver. But in other i...