Another Inconvenient Truth

The Economist recommends legalizing the sale of kidneys in its most recent issue. This is a view that upsets many people, although as the article illustrates, there are several benefits to a market in human organs as well as some moral precedent.

A common argument against an organ market is that it forces the poor into life-threatening surgery and that they lack free-will on this sensitive decision. Interestingly, society has little problem allowing poor women to rent their wombs to would-be-parents, which is 6 times as likely to lead to death as an organ transplant.

The issue isn't as simple as The Economist suggests (what a surprise), but I do support their conclusion.

Posted By Peter