Why We Need a Market for Human Organs

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Cassandra Sommers Scott Vaszily English 102 5 February 2013 Summary of Sally Satel’s “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs” In her article, “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs,” Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist, opens her argument with support from Gavin Carney, a nephrologist in favor of an ethical market for human organs. “[P]eople just don’t seem willing to give their organs … for free,” Carney begins (311). Satel continues to contribute more support by stating the fact that the black market isn’t going to stop whether all is in favor of it or not, so why not create a safe and beneficial way for donors to sell their kidneys through the government for a responsible price. Satel adds, “[b]ecause of the … organ shortage, thousands of people die … for want of a kidney” (311). And to add even more support, she provides information on her own kidney transplant that she was luckily able to receive. In paragraph 4, Satel includes that the black market is deceiving. To avoid all the corruption within the black market, such as, being cheated through ways of payment, receiving diseased organs, or to just avoid the shortage of available kidneys, a happy medium needs to be generated. She provides even more support, by then including stories from a news article that proves how desperate our nation is for kidneys. The article she uses states that the governmental officials in the Philippines recently banned the sale of organs to needy immigrants. This is only going to make the global shortage worse, thus, leaving desperate patients with no ultimatum. This unnecessary action is only going to create more problems in the black market, forcing it to become even more secret; which could lead to even more destruction. “[H]ealth authorities should … promote a legal apparatus for exchange” acknowledges Satel (311). But for this to be possible all fallacies need

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