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ENG-106 October 22,2019 Rachel Givan

The Rise of Organ Sales and Organ Trafficking When you go to the DMV to get a new license or to get any other paperwork, they will ask you if you are an organ donor so that they can determine if the donor logo needs to be on your ID. It is a person’s right to choose whether they want to donate their organs to someone in need when they pass away or if they would like to be left alone and keep them. Families argue about this decision when their loved one has passed. Some are fully against it while others want to make a difference. It might seem like the right decision would be to become a donor. Becoming a donor can potentially save someone who is on his or her deathbed. Making such decision can come with complications. Right now there is currently a shortage of people who volunteer to be an organ donor, which is causing other issues in the world. Organ brokers selling organs are becoming a huge problem across the globe. Brokers can have a hidden agenda to be beneficial to corporate companies. People will lie to sell and benefit. It has become an epidemic that has impacted millions of families around the world. Organ sales are increasing issues involving human trafficking, corporate issues, and medical mistrust. This is a criminal offense and should be treated as so. If we decline this, black market sales would be reduced immensely.

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Organ trafficking is becoming a huge problem in some countries around the world. It has become rapidly effecting other countries. Global Financial Integrity (GFI) estimates that 10 percent of all organ transplants including lungs, heart and liver, are done via trafficked organs (Bain, 2018). There is a high demand for organs recently but a low supply of reputable organ donors. This has made everyone and anyone a great candidate. Some organ traffickers are so good that patients and medical facilities believe they are reputable (Bain, 2018). The organs that they are getting and selling to the black market might not even be organs that are acceptable and healthy for someone. Some of these organs can be damaged and have no use for someone in need. They might come from people who have been denied being an organ donor or someone who is in poor health, or even someone whose organ was no longer functioning. In some countries, it is common for families to think that selling a kidney for money is a normal thing. It has been normalized through generations. It is often passed down from generation to generation as a way to provide (Scheper-Hughes, 2016). This is an inhumane way to live. You should not live life thinking that you need to sell your organs in order to make money or to be accepted into a country. It should not be an option between living with all working organs or having to sell an organ in order to live. Organ trafficking is affecting corporate companies by having organs sold on the black market. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 10,000 kidneys get traded on the black market worldwide every year which can be equal to more than one every hour (Bain, 2018). This increase has limited people and continues to cause a great deal of damage. It is a ripple effect going from the top to the bottom of the chain. People wind up going to the black market for organs due to the high demand for them. It can take a couple years to get a kidney and some countries can be waiting as long as 7 years for one. That is where the black market has a

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huge push. People resort to the black market in order to save their loved one’s lives. They don’t care where the organ comes from or how it was obtained. This practice is affecting public health and security. Most corporate companies do not care about the people that organ trafficking is affecting; all they care about is the money they are making off selling organs to those in need. Instead of trying to find legal donors and come up with a system to have them compensated legally. Being that there are shortages of organ donors throughout the world, some people get desperate and feel like they need to go to other countries and buy organs illegally to save lives of their loved ones. Organ trafficking can lead to mistrust in our medical system. Trafficked organs may be transplanted to recipients in the most reputable of hospitals in major cities throughout the world (Bain, 2018). We are supposed to be able to trust our doctors and medical facilities to give us pristine service. Doctors have the ability to not register someone on the waiting list. More than likely, the doctors who are operating on someone might not know that the organs they are using have been trafficked. This brings us back to the corporate aspect. The corporate companies do whatever they need to do to make money such as buy trafficked organs from the black market but might not tell anybody where they got the organs. If you were on an operating bed in the hospital, would you think to ask your doctor if the organ he is giving you came legally? Most people would think that is a weird question to ask because if it is coming from the hospital it must be healthy, right. It is not something that we think to question. This is a reason why it has become such an undercover issue. In countries like Mexico, it is common for doctors to be in malpractice of operating with black market organs. Some even go to the extent of trying to misdiagnose individuals to obtain their organs. There have been cases where doctors have pulled the plug on patients that had a chance at life.

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With all of these issues with organ trafficking, how do we know that our medical facilities are actually doing what they are supposed to be doing and getting organs legally? How do we know that these organs are not coming from organ brokers? People will go to large extents for money. Organ donations are a good thing and help millions of lives. As long as we do it the legal way then there’s nothing wrong with it. The number of organ donors have declined. We should implement a system where the donor can benefit from. If the person is deceased, we could fund their funeral and if someone donates while living, they too can be compensated. If people want organ sales to become a thing then we need to make sure that it will be regulated, and that organ trafficking does not continue. For example, if someone needs an organ transplant, they should be able to get with their doctor and go through the whole process with them, Legalizing the business industry would provide more access to those who have been waiting for an organ transplant. It would also help make the process of distribution easier. This would cause the blackmarket sales to drop drastically. This could also increase donors because they will become encouraged to save thousands of lives.

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Resources Bain, C., Mari, J., & Delmonico, F. (2018, June 26). Organ Trafficking: The Unseen Form of Human Trafficking. Retrieved October 21, 2019, from https://www.acamstoday.org/organtrafficking-the-unseen-form-of-human-trafficking/. Scheper-Hughes, N. (2016, January 5). The Markey for Human Organs is Destroying Lives. Retrieved October 21, 2019, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/intheory/wp/2016/01/05/the-market-for-human-organs-is-destroying-lives/. Negri, S. (2016). Transplant Ethics and the International Crime of Organ Trafficking. International Criminal Law Review, 16(2). 287-303. https://doiorg.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1163/15718123-01602001 KELLY, E. (2013). International Organ Trafficking Crisis: Solutions Addressing the Heart of the Matter. Boston College International & Comparative Law Review, 36(2), 1317–1349. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx? direct=true&db=a9h&AN=98136762&site=eds-live&scope=site Columb, S. sean. columb@liverpool. ac. u. (2015). Beneath the organ trade: a critical analysis of the organ trafficking discourse. Crime, Law & Social Change, 63(1/2), 21–47. https://doiorg.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s10611-014-9548-0...