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Tonight's episode of "Law & Order: SVU" was centered around the issue of organ transplant, and whether buying/selling organs should be legal. The system that is used now places patients on a list based on the severity of their illness, but the number of patients in need is much higher than the number of donors.
On the one side of the issue was the argument that if people were monetarily compensated for donating their healthy organs to people whose own organs were failing, more people would be willing to part with a kidney, or other body part, and there would be fewer people going without the operations necessary for them to live. From the alternate perspective, if human organs could be purchased, what would be the means for deciding the value of a lung, or a heart? People unable to procure the inevitable hundreds of thousands of dollars would be passed over for the procedures and lose their right to live.
I would like to believe that there could be a happy medium if selling organs were legal. I believe there would still be people willing to donate them for free, and a combination of the two systems could provide for all of the needy parties.
What do you think?
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