Human Organ Market

In the article “Living Non-Directed Organ Donation” by The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, they talked about the different ways that someone can donate their organs. I liked this article a lot because they explained really well all of the different options that someone has when deciding where their organ is going to go. I was able to give my audience multiple options for them to choose from which is always better than just having one specific option for them to choose. This was an effective article because it states exactly what each of the options are, what they mean, and also what the donor needs to do. Depending on what option they choose to sell their organ, this is going to determine what they are going to need to do in order to go through with this.
https://unos.org/transplant/living-donation/

Living Donation Facts and Resources from UNOS | Living Donor Transplants Learn everything you need to know about the living donation process from UNOS. Get more information on living donation including who can be a living donor, paired donation, and more.

In the article “Being a Living Donor” by The Kidney Transplant Learning Center, it talks about the pros and cons for a living donor. I chose this article because it provided me with all of the pros of why someone should become a living donor, but also stated some cons that could happen. However, I was able to back up the cons in this article with the pros that they talked about as well. I noticed that the cons were not even that bad because they are mainly short-term. Whereas the pros like having a higher-self esteem and feeling a sense of happiness and reward would be more long-term. This article by The Kidney Transplant Learning Center was very effective because of the fact that they gave me the facts about why someone should become a living donor and also helped me back up the cons that the audience may have questions about.
https://transplantliving.org/kidney/pros-and-cons-for-a-living-donor/

Pros and cons for a living donor - Transplant Living KIDNEY TRANSPLANT LEARNING CENTER Being a living donor Kidney Transplant Learning Center Kidney disease and treatment What are kidneys? When kidneys stop working Treatment options Dialysis What is dialysis? What are the dialysis options? How to choose a type of dialysis Transplant from a donorwho ha...

In the article “The Kidney Transplant Waiting List” by Harvey Mysel, he really did a good job at explaining why the kidney transplant waiting list is such a big deal. I chose this article because even though it is on the shorter side of the articles I have used, there is an numerous amount of important information and statistics that really shocked me. I was able to use a majority of the statistics provided in the article to hopefully convince my audience that we should have a legal human organ market.
http://www.lkdn.org/kidney_tx_waiting_list.html

Living Kidney Donor Network - The Kidney Transplant Waiting List The United Network of Organ Sharing, (UNOS) is the organization that manages the kidney transplant waiting list. www.unos.org

In the article “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs” by Sally Satel, I felt like this was kind of the base of why I chose this topic because she really did a good job at explaining why we need a legal human organ market. She not only explained why we need it, but she also talked about how the donors can benefit from $50,000 as well which is more than likely one of the main reasons people will agree to go through with this. This article was really effective because it was one of the main reasons that brought me to the topic I chose.
http://www.aei.org/publication/why-we-need-a-market-for-human-organs/

Why We Need a Market for Human Organs Why We Need a Market for Human Organs

Some people believe that if we have a legal human organ market that it will destroy lives. In the article “The Market for Human Organs is Destroying Lives,” by Nancy Scheper-Hughes talks about why it may be destroying lives. She believes that this is not a good idea because of the fact that some sellers have had negative effects on their bodies after the operation and that it just puts someone who was ultimately healthy now at risk for tons of things. However, in the article “Living Organ Donation and Valuable Consideration,” by Erin Williams talks about why we really need a change in our system because obviously what we are doing right now is not working. She states that in 2004, Congress passed the Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act. This law authorized the Secretary to evaluate the long-term effects associated with living organ donations. However, the long-term effects have been very minor and nothing to be worried about. It just depends on the person who sells their organ and how healthy they were. Also if legalizing the human organ market, then there will be so many tests run on everyone to make sure that they are healthy enough to even go through with this before putting someone through surgery. The government is not going to allow someone to donate an organ if they believe that the one selling their organ is not healthy enough. For more information, click the links below.
http://congressionalresearch.com/RL33902/document.php?study=Living+Organ+Donation+and+Valuable+Consideration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/01/05/the-market-for-human-organs-is-destroying-lives/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4caca98a9ded

Living Organ Donation and Valuable Consideration

People feel that it is not worth selling their organ because they do not want to go through surgery or deal with the side effects that come with it. In the article “Benefits and Risks of Becoming a Living Organ donor” the American Transplant Foundation states that there is so much more positives when choosing to sell an organ compared to the negatives. Some of the positives include saving someone’s life, positive emotional experiences, and more time with your loved ones. Also in the article “Being a Living Donor,” The Kidney Transplant Learning Center talks about the same thing. Even though donating is definitely selfless, there have been studies that have show that living donors live just as long as people who have never donated an organ before. Therefore, even though surgery is something that no one really wants to go through and is scary, there is have been studies showing that the donors will live just as long as everyone who has not donated. For more information, visit the links below!
https://transplantliving.org/kidney/pros-and-cons-for-a-living-donor/
https://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/about-transplant/living-donation/about-living-donation/

Pros and cons for a living donor - Transplant Living KIDNEY TRANSPLANT LEARNING CENTER Being a living donor Kidney Transplant Learning Center Kidney disease and treatment What are kidneys? When kidneys stop working Treatment options Dialysis What is dialysis? What are the dialysis options? How to choose a type of dialysis Transplant from a donorwho ha...

The amount of available human organs keeps on decreasing as time goes on. This means that less people on the waiting list have a chance at receiving a new organ and having another shot at life. In “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs” by Sally Satel, a man named Gavin Carney states “the current system isn’t working we’ve tried everything to drum up support, but people don't seem willing to give their organs away for free.” Which is very true, no one is going to go through surgery just for fun. However, for $50,000 some people would probably do it. According to the article “The Kidney Transplant Waiting List” by Harvey Mysel, it states that unless there is a significant change in the number of kidney transplants each year, there will soon be over 100,000 waiting. These two articles show how badly we are in need of organs and unless we do something about it soon, it will continuously be decreasing. For more statistics and information on human organs, visit the links below:
http://www.lkdn.org/kidney_tx_waiting_list.html
http://www.aei.org/publication/why-we-need-a-market-for-human-organs/

Living Kidney Donor Network - The Kidney Transplant Waiting List The United Network of Organ Sharing, (UNOS) is the organization that manages the kidney transplant waiting list. www.unos.org

Being a Living Donor by the Kidney Transplant Learning Center, talks about multiple things like the pros and cons to the risks and benefits of becoming a living donor. One of the pros that is kind of cool is that if you ever end up needing a transplant, you will have a shorter wait on the UNOS transplant waitlist because people who have been kidney donors get first priority. A con that you may have is some short-term side effects from surgery, but as stated in the article, less than 2% of donors need to go back to the hospital. The rest of the article talks about other pros and cons that one may have if they end up becoming a living donor. So if you are interested and considering on signing up then visit the link below!
https://transplantliving.org/kidney/pros-and-cons-for-a-living-donor/

Pros and cons for a living donor - Transplant Living KIDNEY TRANSPLANT LEARNING CENTER Being a living donor Kidney Transplant Learning Center Kidney disease and treatment What are kidneys? When kidneys stop working Treatment options Dialysis What is dialysis? What are the dialysis options? How to choose a type of dialysis Transplant from a donorwho ha...

In the article “Living Organ Donation Saves a Life Now” by The Living banks ILDAS, they first talk about how the very first organ transplant was back in 1954 when a kidney from one twin was transplanted into his brother. The article continues on to talk about what their primary focus is and that would be living kidney donation because they state that 82 percent of the people on the waiting list are waiting for a kidney. There are 3 ways that you can donate and it is either directed, non-directed, or paired. Directed is when you give your organ to a specific person. Non-directed is when your organ is given to someone random that is compatible with the same blood type. Lastly, paired is when you end up switching donors so that each candidate is able to receive an organ with the same blood type. For more information about the 3 ways you can donate, visit the link below.
https://www.livingbank.org/organ-donation/living-donation/

Living Organ Donation Saves a Life Now Our primary focus is living kidney donation because there are over 95,000 people (82 percent of the National Transplant Waiting List) in the U.S. waiting for a kidney.

Living Non-Directed Organ Donation by The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, talks about the two basics types of donation. These donations start by either being from deceased donors or living donors. Throughout the first few paragraphs this network talks about the history of living kidney donation. Then they later talk about how someone can either choose to do a directed donation or a non-directed donation. We are needing more people for a non-directed donation because some people do not have anyone close to them that will give them an organ. If someone ends up choosing to go through with a non-directed donation, then they must understand that the organ recovery center controls the recipient selection process and that the person receiving that organ will not even know who the organ is from. However, before any of this happens the donor must go through the informed consent process so that they are able to make treatment decisions and know what they are getting themselves into. Lastly, after everything is done then there will be a donor follow-up to make sure that they are doing well and that they are on the right track to recovery.
https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/resources/ethics/living-non-directed-organ-donation/

Ethics - Living Non-Directed Organ Donation - OPTN The OPTN is operated under contract with the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). This Web site provides data and educational information about organ donation, transplantation and the matching process.

In the article “Living Donation,” by UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) they talk about directed, non-directed, and paired donation. So many people are on the waitlist waiting for an organ transplant. In 2018, nearly 7,000 transplants were made possible by living organ donors. Anyone can be a living donor if you are older than 18 years old and have a good overall physical and mental health. Even though your decision is completely voluntary, some people may not be able to donate based on a medical condition, so everyone must be sure that that are honest with their doctor about their medical history. A directed donation is when the donor names the specific person to receive the transplant. A non-directed donation is whenever the organ just goes to someone random that matches the medical compatibility. A paired donation is whenever two candidates trade donors so that each candidate receives an organ from a donor with a compatibility blood time. In the article it states that if you are thinking about becoming a living donor, then you can contact the transplant center and the staff will begin the medical evaluation process. Next what you would do is go through the informed consent process which will take you step-by-step through the donation process and what you should expect. Recovery from surgery is not very long. If you are a kidney donor, then you will only need to stay in the hospital between three and seven days after surgery.
https://unos.org/transplant/living-donation/

Living Donation Facts and Resources from UNOS | Living Donor Transplants Learn everything you need to know about the living donation process from UNOS. Get more information on living donation including who can be a living donor, paired donation, and more.

This article is managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration and also the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this article it is full of tons of important statistics, starting with 113,000+ is the number of men, women, and children on the national transplant waiting list as of January 2019. These statistics go on and on and are very interesting. If you would like know more statistics about organ transplants, click the link below.
https://www.organdonor.gov/statistics-stories/statistics.html

Organ Donation Statistics | Organ Donor Sign up as an organ, eye, and tissue donor anytime online—or at your motor vehicles department. Learn more, connect with your state.

Transplant Tourism: Philippines Still FIghting Organ Trafficking talks about how even though organ transplant tourism is illegal in the Philippines, it is still a big problem in their country. The Department of Health has even stepped in and tried to stop this problem by letting everyone know that organ transplantation is not legal and they issues two orders to fight organ trafficking. It states in the article that just in the last 10 years, the Philippines gained an international reputation as the top spot for illegal traffic in human organs from living donors. They received lots of criticism because others thought that their administration was promoting transplant tourism. They soon ended up signing an order that sets up a system for harvesting and transplantation of organs from deceased donors so that people who need kidneys can receive one more efficiently. To read more, visit the link below.
https://www.imtj.com/news/transplant-tourism-philippines-still-fighting-organ-trafficking/

Transplant tourism: Philippines still fighting organ trafficking | IMTJ Although most organ transplant tourism has been illegal in The Philippines since 2008, the country is struggling to eradicate the problem. The Department of Health (DOH) has issued two administrative orders to fight organ trafficking, in particular the se

The Kidney Transplant Waiting List by Harvey Mysel is about lots of important information about kidneys. This article provides an overwhelming amount of statistics that prove that we need a legal human organ market. Right now, there are over 93,000 people on the kidney transplant waiting list. Also the wait for someone to get a kidney could be 5 years in certain states. However this could go all the way up to 10 years in other states. Throughout this article Mysel talks about why we need to see a significant change in the number of kidney transplants performed each other. Otherwise, if there is not sudden change soon then there will be over 100,000 people waiting for a kidney. For more information about kidney transplants, click on the link below.
http://www.lkdn.org/kidney_tx_waiting_list.html

Living Kidney Donor Network - The Kidney Transplant Waiting List The United Network of Organ Sharing, (UNOS) is the organization that manages the kidney transplant waiting list. www.unos.org

In “An Ethical Market in Human Organs by Charles Erin and John Harris, they talk about how people’s lives are going to continue to be put at risk because there are not enough organs for everyone to have a transplant. However, they suggest having a market in organs from living donors. Throughout the article it shows statistics how many people have received transplants compared to those who are still waiting for an organ. In other countries, like the United Kingdom, the British Medical Association voted in favor of having a system for a living organ donations. Charles Erin and John Harris continue to talk about how multiple types of Associations have voted in favor of having a legal organ system, however nothing has changed. There is a lot of doubt about the ethics of buying and selling organs, but there will be a very strictly regulated market for those who are wanting to become a living donor. The risks of a live donation is also very low as well so therefore there is nothing to worry about. The last two paragraphs of this article are very important because this is where they talk about how they are going to go about having a legal organ market and how the living organ donors will be benefited. If you are curious about what that might be, visit the link below !
https://jme.bmj.com/content/29/3/137.

An ethical market in human organs While people’s lives continue to be put at risk by the dearth of organs available for transplantation, we must give urgent consideration to any option that may make up the shortfall. A market in organs from living donors is one such option. The market should be ethically supportable, and have buil...

In this article by Erin D. Williams, he heavily talks about how much we need a change in our system. We are so behind on organs and more and more people are being added to the waitlist. Even though this article is very long, he kind of talks about the same thing over again that that is why we should consider becoming a living organ donor. Williams feels like if we have more living organ donors, then we can talk more people off of the waitlist. He also talks about lots of different ethical issues related to living organ donations and the impacts that is has on not only yourself, but others around you as well. If you are interested in reading this well-written article by Erin D. Williams, then click on the link below.
http://congressionalresearch.com/RL33902/document.php?study=Living+Organ+Donation+and+Valuable+Consideration

Living Organ Donation and Valuable Consideration

In the article “The Market for Human Organs is Destroying Lives by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, it talks about how the author feels like if we had a legal organ market that it would basically destroy more lives than the ones we save. She states how you would be putting the seller and yourself at risk if you are receiving an organ from a random living person. The sale of organs has also damaged the families of sellers and their communities. Scheper-Hughes talks about how she has talked to kidney sellers across that world and that the sellers say that they suffer from the operations negative effects on their bodies, minds, and lives. Also it she states that the medical journals do not report on the effects that an individual might have from selling an organ. There are also markets that are run illegally underground. People can both buy and sell their organs to these underground market, but you do not know what condition the organ may even be in or if it is going to be comparable with your body. Throughout the rest of this article, Scheper-Hughes talks about the countries who have caught people who have been buying and selling kidneys to people. Lastly, she talks about how money for kidneys is not the issue, but it is the irresponsibility of the kidney sellers and that if you need a kidney then you are better off choosing someone you know because you can not put a price on life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/01/05/the-market-for-human-organs-is-destroying-lives/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.17dc0231e5bd

Opinion | The market for human organs is destroying lives We don't have "spare" kidneys. They shouldn't be up for sale.

In the article, it first talks about how living organ donations are categorized by non-directed and directed living organ donation. Between the ages of 18 and 60 years old is usually who decide to donate an organ. There are multiple tests that have to happen in order for someone to donate and organ and for someone to receive an organ as well. Each person is evaluated very carefully to make sure that everything is perfect. The most common living organ donations are the kidney and the liver. After that would be the lung and lastly, the rarest is a portion of the intestine and pancreas. Some positive aspects that are stated in the article about living organ donation is that it gives the recipient quality of life, increased life span, shorter waiting time, and better results all together. For the living donor it gives them positive emotional experiences, and more time with your loved one. When going through surgery there are some things that might affect your body. When it comes to the donor, most donors go on to live happy and healthy lives. For kidney donors, they have the quickest recovery with only needing about a couple weeks to rest and then can resume with their normal life. Going through a transplant surgery is very scary, however transplantation is highly successful. When you donate an organ, your other kidney will actually enlarge to do the work of the missing kidney. Your liver will regenerate and regain full function. Your lungs and pancreas do not regenerate or enlarger, however donors do not usually experience any major problems. When it comes to risks, it is very rare that someone is going to die when going through surgery. However, there are always going to be short and long term risks and side effects, but it just depends on the person. The rest of this article talks about how pregnancy will not be affected in the future if someone decides to donate an organ. Also, some police, fire, and military will not accept people with only one kidney.

https://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/about-transplant/living-donation/about-living-donation/

Benefits and risks of becoming a living organ donor - American Transplant Foundation BENEFITS AND RISKS OF BECOMING A LIVING ORGAN DONOR Chelsey donated a kidney to her college roommate, Ellen. Chelsey is now a 1+1=LIFE Mentorship mentor and …

In “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs” by Sally Satel, she states how Gavin Carney is pushing people to be allowed to sell their kidneys. The current system is not working and he explains how they have tried everything to get people to sell a kidney, but people do not seem willing to do it. However, if money is involved then people are more than likely going to be interested. He also wants to keep people away from the black market because since there is such a big kidney shortage people are turning to the black market to buy a kidney out of desperation. The kidney shortage is such a problem, thousands of patients die a year because they do not receive one in time. The only way he says to increase the supply of kidneys is to offer cash to potential donors. Later on in the article, it talks about how other countries are looking for alternative ways to increase the supply of organs as well. People are realizing that something needs to be done and a new system needs to be made because more and more people are dying, while less and less people are wanting to sell an organ. The only way to stop illegal transactions including the black market is to legalize organ sales.

http://www.aei.org/publication/why-we-need-a-market-for-human-organs/

Why We Need a Market for Human Organs Why We Need a Market for Human Organs