KIDNEY SELLING

Kidney Selling



Kidney Selling

Introduction

Organ trading is banned worldwide and generally prohibited by law, both the donor and the recipient of a kidney to make this clearly punishable. The question of selling kidney is a disagreement between classical liberals and some libertarians. For classical liberals, such a right does not exist. Libertarians see it in reverse as a mere extension of the doctrine of self-ownership, since it falls under freedom exclusive of every individual to have his own body.

Unfortunately, despite the valid laws in different countries around the world the kidney is illegally traded. For a small amount of money people can be found in economic distress among high health risks of a kidney. Donors often suffer for years from the consequences of this illegal kidney donation.

Kidneys are an important organ in human body that not only filters the toxins from blood and removes waste products but also help in maintaining the balance of body by regulating the electrolyte levels. Inability of kidney, either one or both, to perform its function refers to Kidney Failure condition. It may occur either due to acute problems or due to chronic problems. Kidney failure results in inability of kidney to filter wastes, and maintain fluid balances. This result in accumulation of toxic wastes is the blood stream which can have an effect on the functioning of brain and heart (Lake, 2004, pp. 266).

Laws punishing the sale of kidney are illegitimate laws in regard to natural rights. It tries to impose a particular moral based on an assumption of the "inviolability of the human person." The height of absurdity is reached when the law says that a deceased donor is automatically presumed, unless otherwise specified or relatives will: individual cannot sell an organ, but at his death, by default, it belongs to the world. Also for the recipient bears the illegal kidney trade has enormous health risks.

Discussion

All international and national medical bodies condemn the sale of kidneys. Many people find the idea of selling organs offensive and object to it on ethical grounds. Organs should not be treated as common commodities to be bought and sold like other objects. There is something sacred about the human body, and it is wrong to buy and sell a person's internal parts, they contend.

Furthermore, legalizing the sale of organs would result in the exploitation of disadvantaged segments of the population, critics say. The only people who would be willing to sell their organs for money, they argue, would be individuals in desperate need. Critics say that it is wrong to allow poor people to sell their bodies out of desperation. Organ brokering would allow wealthy people, who can afford to pay large sums of money for an organ, to take advantage of poor people, who would be compromising their health by selling their body parts (Michael, 2009, pp. 45 - 200).

Some analysts claim that people who sell their body parts out of desperation are not acting voluntarily. Rather, if people were permitted to sell their kidneys, many ...