Should People be able to sell their Kidneys?

Where do these hospitals get the organs they use?
Where do you think those 3rd world kidneys go?
How about the ones from China? Made to order? Hospital calls - "We need kidneys of type XXXX." Chinese organ trader: "It will be on its way in about an hour."

 

question, when you 'donate' your kidney, does the hospital turn around and sell it?

 

Not that I'm aware

 

The point I was trying to make was that if people start selling off kidney's, wouldn't it make sense that it would evolve to the point where almost anyone would sell their kidney's as opposed to donating them? Or are you maintaining that it would only apply to those who are alive at the time of the donation as opposed from harvesting them from deceased people?

 

I guess I wasn't clear on that. What I had in mind was donations from live people. Since there are half a million people in the US on dialysis, the need for donor kidneys is far greater than what the current system is able to supply.

 

Absolutely, it's your body, which is your property, and if you want to sell a part of it, it is your right to do so. It would not only be able to benefit the person selling, but the person buying would be eternally grateful in that it would give them the ability to exchange money for life. It would also remove the black market and the problems related to the procedures and crimes created by the black market. I really can't think of a good reason for making it illegal. It is nobody else's business what I do with my body, and it is none of my business what anybody else does with theirs. If people would only learn to cultivate their own garden, we could live in a really amazing world (sorry for that minor digression).

 

This still begs the question of Why there is so much kidney failure.
Have they examined the diet and lifestyle of these people?
Do they eat junk food and drink too much alcohol?
Is it the poisons in and on our food and water?
Is it something in our environment?
OR is it due to Prescription Meds?

The death toll cited by lil Mike is inexcusable. There has to be a reason WHY!!!!

 

Everyone that supports abortion should be supporting the idea that a person should be able to sell thier own organs. If its "my body and nobody should have the right to tell me what to do with my body", then that applies to selling your body parts as well as killing an unwanted "body part".

 

There sure does seem to be a disconnect on that though.

 

Not a body part - at best it is a parasite

 

In the US the arguement by abortionists follows the "my body, my life, my choice" theme. Since pregnancy, birth control, abortion, and birth have a physical risk to the womans health & body, then she is the only one who should make the decision regarding abortion & pregnancy ("my body"). The woman has her own religious beliefs and morality, and knows her own life situation and conditions and should be the only one to make the decision ("my life"). The woman is protected legally under the 14th Amendment from undue coercion and excessive burden from the govt (includes the right to privacy) and the choice is hers alone ("my choice").

All of that applies to organ donation.

 

Ah! But I am not a US citizen or an "abortionist"

 

But for not being a US citizen, you sure seem to want to tell us US citizens how to live.

A quick internet search on pro-abortion Australia shows the abortionist arguement in AUS is similar to the "my body, my life, my choice" theme. And I highly doubt the abortionists are running around argueing that its "just a parasite", that would be a PR disaster.