Monday, November 22, 2010

Response to Casey Peacock's Organs for Sale

In Casey's blog about selling organs she does a great job explaining the debate that arises about selling organs.  She explains multiple sides of the issue from different perspectives.  First she mentions that from the sellers point of view selling organs makes logical and economical sense.  She compares selling plasma to selling an organ which is an interesting perspective.  She then explains the other side of the issue, the side of the buyers.  The buyers would be forced to pay extremely high prices in order to save their lives.  This would mean that many people wouldn't be able to afford to save their lives and it raises ethical issues.  Is it fair that only the wealthy can afford to buy organs?  Casey links the article Sell Organs to Save Lives to her blog.  I find both the article and Casey's blog very informative and thought provoking.  I think that I agree with Casey's idea of the sale of organs being ethically wrong.  I feel like we can't give the right to live a price tag.  I also believe that the sale of organs would create a lot of new unforeseen problems and corruption in the health care system.  Casey's blog can be found at http://cpeacocklsc100f09.blogspot.com/.

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