Should the Sale of Human Organs Be Legal? - Yes

Organ transplantation is one of the major breakthroughs in medical area, however, human organs are scarce, and the society has unsolved ethical issues raised from the scarcity. There are people who believe that the government should legalize the organ market for the several reasons. Supporters of legalization of organ market says:

    
     1. Hospitals are always low on organ donations. If organ sales save lives, there is no reason
        why it should not be legal. This will be the only way to solve the scarcity.
        I believe that the good associated with people being able to donate
        organs for money and the lives that this will save far outweighs the downside of
        people stealing organs for sale. Human can live with partial organs. The
        ability to sell organs would make more availability for those who need them.

     2. If anything is illegal, people will still do it at any other coasts. It is the same
         condition as the alcoholic beverage prohibition law in the past. Many of us become
         desperate, especially, when we need organs to save a loved one.
         Thus, instead of making people to violate the law, it is better to legalize the organ
         market and rather regulate it under the law.

     3. Legalization of organs market will stop the predators from killing the innocent.
         Since people do businesses in organ black market, it is easy to find the crimes
         associated with organ sales. Murder or serious injuries happen because organ market
         is illegal and not controlled by government. It would be better for the society to legalize
         the market and keep eye on it.

     4. The sales of adult organs by the adult themselves should be legal, because it is a
         personal decision. Based on the principle of autonomy, the government has no
         right to prohibit people selling organs. It is a personal decision, and the government
         should not be involved in any way at all. As long as a seller is rational and healthy enough
         to live without the organ, he or she should be allowed to sell it and save someone else.
         The person who are buying the organ would agree it is worth the cost.
        

Growing Demand Fuels Black Market Organ Trade

Though the organ and tissue donation market are highly regulated in the United States, underhanded dealings between shadowy operators are not unheard of. It's illegal in the U.S., and most other nations, to offer or receive compensation for an organ donation. But a black market for human organs does exist.

Have you thought of how much your organ would be? The following is the amount of money associated with organ trade:
     Average paid by kidney buyer: $150,000
     Average paid to seller of kidney: $5,000
     Kidney buyer in United States: $120,000

Nearly 11,000 organs were bought on the black market in 2010, a sign that the illegal organ trade is booming, according to the World Health Organization.

There were nearly 107,000 organ transplants in 2010 – just 10 percent of the global need – and WHO officials and medical experts estimate 10 percent of those transplants were done with organs acquired on the black market.

It's ever growing, and it's a constant struggle. The stakes are so big, the profit that can be made so huge, that the temptation is out there.

The Guardian contacted an organ broker in China who advertised his services under the slogan, "Donate a kidney, buy the new iPad!" He offered £2,500 for a kidney and said the operation could be performed within 10 days.

According to the paper, many patients go to China, India or Pakistan for the surgery, paying up to $200,000 for a kidney to gangs who harvest organs from people for as little as $5,000.

Proof of illegal trafficking is being collected by networks of doctors in various countries known as custodian groups. The groups are working to support the Declaration of Istanbul, the 2008 statement against global organ exploitation honored by almost 100 nations.

What is Organ Transplant?

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word transplant means to transfer an organ or tissue from one part or individual to another.

Removing an organ from a person to another is what we have seen only in the movies. It is amazing how scientific fiction actually became reality.

Within present medical technology, organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and thymus. Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs, followed by the liver, and then the heart. Tissue transplant are operated more often and outnumbers organs transplant by more than tenfold, but we will focus on organ transplant.
Organ donors may be living or brain dead. Tissue may be recovered from donors who are cardiac dead-up to 24 hours past the cessation of heartbeat.

In the United States of America, tissue transplants are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which sets strict regulations on the safety of the transplants, primarily aimed at the prevention of the spread of communicable disease. Regulations include criteria for donor screening and testing as well as strict regulations on the processing and distribution of tissue grafts.

However, due to the shortage of organ supplies, organ market is being an ethical issue.
In India, Philippines, China, and Iran, organ trade was or is legally permitted but still debatable.
In the rest of the world, organ trade is illegal, which brings the black market for organs. Poverty is not the only reason of the organ black market, but poverty is seen in all countries with a large organ black market.
There are many ethical concerns and objections to the organ market with lots of important reasons. On the other hand, some people insists that punishing people for trying to sell and buy organs infringes on a right to decide what to do with one's own body.

Six-organ transplant saves 9-year-old Alannah

On January 31st, 2012, Boston Globe published the story of Alannah Shevenell, a 9-year-old girl, who underwent a six organ transplant to remove a rare, life-threatening tumor at Children's Hospital Boston.
It's amazing how she bored all the procedures and surgeries and got better.
Organ transplant certainly brought huge development to the medical fields.