Psychiatrist Sally Satell, suffering from eventual renal failure, has been pushing for the creation of an organ market. This market would allow people to sell a kidney, a slice of their liver and actually their eggs, or whatever organ is in demand.
Satell suggests a system, where a donor can accept a reward for their organs. Donors would be carefully screened for physical and emotional impediments. RIGHT!
I wonder if Sally has ever heard of the Black Market? Or seen several recent movies, which depict organ robbery, the theft of organs from unsuspecting victims. Organ robbery also affects the poor. Recent reports show that poor people in third world countries often find they are missing an organ. I'm not sure those are really healthy organs. Or if you follow China, the government executes prisoners, with a single bullet in the back of the head, for their organs. But in our day and age, I'm not sure that the organs procured legally, using a brain death criteria, are healthy.
If a person wants to donate to an organ to a friend, that donor needs to tell the friend they may not survive. Furthermore, in the case of a kidney, the good kidney may fail down the road. In other words, we're talking about full disclosure.
Actually this whole debate turns organ donation, which is supposedly a gift of life, to a mere commodity, which can be bought or sold, not on a Christian viewpoint, but on a utilitarian view.
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