The legal sale of one’s organs can only be carried out in Iraq, Iran, Thailand, India, and Pakistan. Most people know that the sale of human organs is officially prohibited in the United States. Nevertheless, most people want to resort to this method as almost the only effective solution to all their financial problems. At the moment, whether it is possible to legalize the sale of organs is debatable.
The only reason to allow the sale of human organs would be to confront the black market. However, this would not be an effective way to do that (Geoffrey, 2020). Assuming that the sale of organs would be legalized, an arbitrary price for the United States would be around two and a half times the price of Iran – fifteen thousand dollars (Chau & Herring, 2021). That makes the old black-market prices comparatively unattractive to buyers (Mahmood & Wassem, 2021). Consequently, the black market may find new alternatives: purchasing organs from looters in hot spots.
Let the US law on legalizing the sale of organs provide for the purchase and sale only on their country’s territory, which black market sellers can use. It is possible to assume that in a fictional situation with the law on legalizing the trade in organs, the price will be relatively small for the American market (McLachlan, 2021). Even in this case, the illegal transportation of organs from India to America will be more profitable (Walker, 2021). As practice shows, there is no legal justification for allowing people to sell their organs.
Selling organs is a responsible step for any person because the donor’s health and the organs’ recipient are at stake. By organ donation, a person deliberately shortens his or her life by several years. Even successful selling of the organs and getting a good amount of money is unlikely to solve the financial problem since it is necessary to continue living without a particular organ.
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