Ethical issues in organ transplant
As time progresses and civilization gets more advanced humans continue to develop new ways to increase the quality of life. Unfortunately, the progress of technology magnifies existing ethical problems in medicine. Among the most troubling types of problems for medicine, patients, and society are those concerning the transplantation of human organs. The number of organs available for transplantation are extremely scarce so there are many people who, need an organ transplant, but will never receive one. It is simply not possible to supply a transplant organ to all the people that have a medical need for a transplant. As a result, some propose radically new ideas to meet the demands of organs, some of which include the selling of human organs, and the cloning of humans to cultivate organs. If the justification for donating an organ is charity, then it seems ethically contradictory that one could sell his/her organs. The anatomical integrity of a human body is nearly perfect and should be sacrificed only for the highest of motives, which dose not include financial gains. Moreover, imagine the moral chaos that will ensue if organs were sold to the highest bidder. A person in dire poverty may need the money that would come
In conclusion, technology has created a problem that did not exist twenty years ago and hopefully will not exist twenty years from now. Currently society is forced to deal with the reality that people will die because there are not enough organs to save everyone. The scarcity of organs for transplant makes them a valuable and precious item. One possible solution to the debate is to genetically engineer specific organs from embryo cells, but not engineer the humans themselves. Although this practice may or may not be possible, this would solve all the potential ethical problems that would arise from the human aspects of cloning and seems to be a more ethical solution to organ transplantation than the selling of organs. In effect, this prevents human organs from becoming a commodity, which I believe to be unethical because it is contrary to the dignity of the human body/person entity, and if organs were available for purchase, mainly the wealthy population would truly benefit from organ transplant. from an organ donation to support his family. Sadly, society's inability to help him find better ways to support his family may actually force him to sell something that cannot be replaced. While, some argue that since people are paid for their blood, they should
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