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Cause and Effect Argument Essay Breon Mason
Grand Canyon University
ENG-106: English Composition II
Dr. Auchter
January 26, 2024
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Cause and Effect Argument Essay The reality of organ transplants is that there is a seemingly larger number of people who are waiting for an organ donation than there are organs that are available. There is a misconception that health related deaths are due to the lack of organs. Although there are deaths that are caused from that very reason, it is not the sole reason that health related deaths occur. Being on the waiting list any given year there is a ratio of one out of ten that will have the opportunity to receive an organ. That ratio has created an organ trafficking market that has rapidly grown over the years increasing the number of individuals from the waitlist to seek this option. An issue that occurs in the market is that the poor are continuously preyed on to donate their organs to gain wealth while the wealthy that are in need of organs benefit the most (Flescher, 2018). Selling organs is not something individuals think about until it is promoted or have seen a story validating it. The United States has judged selling organs to be illegal, therefore has opened the expansion of finding donors in the black market. It would require the United States federal government to legalize selling organs for the extensive wait list to decrease,
the black market would vanish, and poor people would stop being manipulated (Abouna, 2008). The focus of this essay is to shine the attention on how the black market organ sales has grown due to the United States making it illegal.
Being put on the waiting list for individuals that needs a organ transplant can be a very extensive wait. More often than not, the folks who are placed on this waiting list are at a crossroad in life and have run out of options so having an organ transplant is their last resort. Unfortunately, the black market grows because of this reason. Being in a good financial situation
you can explore the option of shopping in the black market, and receiving an organ would not take as nearly as long as it would be on a traditional wait list (The Inter-Agency Coordination
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Group against Trafficking of Persons, 2021). Furthermore, the individuals who are selling their organs are usually poor and most of the time are in need of money to continue surviving. The behind scene process can raise a lot of health problems, and can lead to the death of the individuals on either side. Fighting for the legalization of organ sales will ensure that more transplants are available. A study shows that there is a person that gets put on the waiting list every ten minutes, close to 20 people die monthly waiting until an organ transplant is their last result (Flescher, 2018). The odds most individuals face when they are put on the waiting are not to good, this put people into a deep depression as it can be the end of their life. A increase in organs would be the the only possible solution. The United States has made selling organs illegal, if caught doing so, they will be fined and took to jail (Ingeno, 2020). Making this crime legal would reduce the chance of being convicted and give individuals on the waiting list a fighting chance to receive the organ they need.
If legalized there would be a major decrease of patients on the waiting list. For example, Iran has legalized selling organs and their wait list has taken a dramatic decline because of it. The reward for selling their organs is a significant amount of money. Moving forward, individuals that are not living in a place that has not legalized organ sales would have to rely on the black market which puts a complication on the process (Ingeno, 2020). The game played by the rich is to exploit the poor with their money. The poor sell their organs out of desperation and are underpaid, while the rich are even more desperate than them because their life is hanging in the balance. Individuals on the waiting list would like for the black market sales to come to an end. Currently, due to the law that has prevented organ sales, the high demand of individuals needing a transplant that demand will never happen (Koplin, 2017). The solution to this happening would be for the number of organs available to increase, and the only way for that to
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happen is to allow payment for those who are willing to sell. The effect of paying for organs would reduce the time people are on the waitlist and bring a stop to the poor who are being manipulated. There will be a reduced amount of deaths in the black market sales if legalized, there are trained professionals to perform these activities knowing the risk that it has. At the point when the organ demands are less, and there is a spike in the supply, that is when the price of receiving an organ becomes affordable. There is a good example of this when it comes to the conversation of abortion. In the beginning abortion was judged illegal in the United States just like organ sales are now. The effect of abortion being illegal leads to women not taking care of themselves and undergoing some serious infections among other complications. Just like organ sales, abortions found their way to the black market, only the wealthiest of women had access to this black market and paid a high price for the procedure while the poor could not afford it (Koplin, 2017). Once abortion became legal in the United States, the fall of the black market began. It became a struggle to keep the blacket market a float because not only had they legalized abortion, in states such as California abortions were being covered by health insurance companies to be sure that the abortion was done safely. If this is mirrored and the United State decides to make organ sales legal it would save lives and have the potential to crash the black market (Ambagtsheer et.al., 2022). What is being advocated around the world is that organ sales should become legal, organ sales being prohibited across most nations has made an opening for the black market (The Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking of Persons, 2021). Legalizing organ sales would have a more beneficial effect on the world than negative, it would end the black market and ensure that these transplants
are being done correctly.
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Boosting the economy is exactly what making organ sales legal would do. Organs are precious parts of the body so they are sold for very high amounts of money. This money is used to pay debts that the poor have accumulated over the years. Bangladesh is a place where the poor
are largely involved in selling their organs for money, when asked what will their money be used
for the answer was always the same, to pay off debt (Ambagtsheer et.al., 2022). The black market is where this is being held in Bangladesh, organ sales are illegal there but it is a hot commodity there. Even in Bangladesh where there are organ sales being done all the time, The black market is a scary place to be when the procedures are done not knowing if the individual may or may not survive (Ambagtsheer et.al., 2022). This is not a first worry for the individual undergoing the transplant, what matters the most in this situation would be the financial gain, and furthermore, also the individual who is receiving the organ is at the same risk. Legalizing organ sales would be a sure way that the black market for it is ended, the individuals involved have safe procedures and the poor are not manipulated anymore.
References
Abouna, G. (2008). Organ shortage crisis: problems and possible solutions. National Library of medicine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18261540/
Ambagtsheer, F., Columb, S., AlBugami, M., & Ivanovski, N. (2022). Kidneys for Sale? A Commentary on Moeindarbari’s and Feizi’s Study on the Iranian Model. Transplant International. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266991/
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Flescher, A. (2018). The organ shortage crisis in America: Incentives, civic duty, and closing the gap. Georgetown University Press.
Ingeno, L. (2020). Too Many Donor Kidneys Are Discarded in U.S. Before Transplantation. Penn Medicine. https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2020/december/too-many-donor-
kidneys-are-discarded-in-us-before-transplantation
Koplin, J. (2017). Kidney sales and market regulation: A reply to Semrau. In The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. National Library of Medicine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29149332/
The Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking of Persons. (2021). Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Organ Removal. https://icat.un.org/sites/g/files/tmzbdl461/files/publications/icat_brief_tip_for_or_final.pd
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