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The legalization of organ sales might be gruesome sounding to most people, but it shouldn't, especially since research shows it would save lives. “An increase in donors will eliminate the long waitlist for organs” (I, Glenn Cohen, 2014). There are many people that already legally sell blood, plasma, bone marrow, eggs, semen and volunteers for medical procedures. Selling of one's organs should be allowed and not considered unethical. In Iran, it’s legal to sell organs and by doing so has virtually eliminated the waitlist for recipients. Sales of organs with the incentive for finical gain means more living individuals will be motivated to donate. Legalizing organ sales in the United States would be ethical if regulated by licensed professionals because it would reduce the waitlist, make it safer for donors, and affordable.

If the United States allowed the sales of organs the waiting list for kidneys would soon disappear. This would be ethical for a person to sell their organs to someone whose life depends on it. For those with failing hearts, livers, kidneys and other vital organs become resistant to all available treatments, a dying person may only survive if given an organ transplant. Unfortunately, right now when someone needs an organ, they are placed on a waitlist in all likely hood they will die before receiving a donor’s organ. Sadly, there are not enough donors to save all the people who need a transplant. This makes people feel desperate and desperate people may attempt to purchase organs illegally. The United States could make this work and one example of this is how it was done in Iran. “One example of a modification to a law legalizing the sale of organs is placing restrictions on who can buy organs. A common proposition is that only the government can buy organs, which is how the Iranian organ market works. Under this approach, once the government purchases organs from individuals, it distributes organs to recipients free of charge. The

government would disperse the organs to individuals based on their needs, their health condition, and whether the organs physiologically matched the individuals. Additionally, the government could impose some other requirements to distinguish buyers, such as mandating that sellers have a gross taxable income below a certain amount to exclude low-income sellers. “(S.Shepp, 2019) By the legalization of organ sales, in turn, reduces the waitlist and stops the black market sales. The majority of the time organs come from black market transactions. In light of the fact that there are not enough donors, this opens the door for corruption. Since it is illegal to buy or sell an organ in the US people turn to brokers. Brokers are described as being the greedy middleman that profits from the sale between two individuals for human organs. If you are in need a black-market broker can hook you up for the right price. Has human beings there is no dollar amount that can be put on a loved one’s life, the broker knows this. This is where safety comes in for the organ donor. Donors may be coererst into selling a vital organ or tissue. Buyers beware that black market sales damage the families of the sellers and endanger the life of the recipients. Organs that are being found for Americans are coming from poor countries. An example of this is political refugees may be given safe passage to freedom, the pricetag is an organ. Not always do the refugees make the full trip, some wash up on the shore of Europe....