Justice and Organ Selling With a shortage of legally sourced organs around the w

Justice and Organ Selling
With a shortage of legally sourced organs around the world, people often search for illegal options. Selling organs is illegal in almost every part of the world. Iran is the only country where a government-sanctioned, regulated organ market exists. Still, the illegal black market thrives, driven primarily by wealthy recipients who can afford to pay for an organ and a transplant in a foreign country.
The most prominent form of global organ trafficking is individuals engaging in medical tourism and traveling to Third World countries. Often the easiest way for a wealthy American or European to get an organ is when the recipients are going overseas, and transplantation is done in another country. Because the organ trade is illegal and U.S. laws and the transplant system are stricter, U.S. patients who are on transplant waiting lists and perhaps also desperate for an organ, then go overseas.
But why is the practice of selling one’s organs illegal? A few years ago, an American college student advertised on the internet that he was offering a kidney to anyone for the price of ten thousand dollars. He reckoned that he needed the money more than he needed a kidney. He was quickly stopped by local authorities. It is his kidney to sell, isn’t it? If I have a good that someone is willing to pay for, isn’t that a simple business transaction, like selling my car?
In the Third World, people may even have more reason than an American college student to sell their organs. Feeding their starving children may be one reason. But are Third World parents and American college students really in the same situation? Is selling one’s kidney really no different than selling one’s car? Is it important to know the situation of the buyer or the seller?
Ill give yuo access to the book online ot base the paper on. looking at
Chadwick & Schüklenk, chapters:
1: “Introduction to Ethics”
2: “Ethical Theory” [sections 2.1, 2.3, 2.4 only]
3: “Basics of Bioethics” [sections 3.4 – 3.11 only]
4: “Moral Standing: What Matters” [sections 4.1 – 4.4 only]
5: “Beginning of Life”
6: “Health Care Professional-Patient Relationship”
7: “Research Ethics”
8: “Genetics” [sections 8.4.1 and 8.4.2 only]
9: “Enhancement”
11: “End of Life”
12: “Justice and Health Care”
The whole of Vaughn’s text