First things first, selling organs is illegal in almost every country existing, even if the

owner sells them or not. After some research, people could only sell their blood, plasma,
sperm, egg, breast milk, feces, hair, stem cells or even rent their bodies for clinical trials or
being surrogate. But as you cand see, there is not an actual organ, only elements that are in a
large number and can grow back and even if they dont (im talking about the egg and feces)
they enable the owner to live without them.
We object to a free market in organs for several reasons:
1. Only poor people would be willing to sell their organs, and these desperate
individuals would do so without understanding the consequences of their actions. Furthermore,
only rich people will be able to have access to organs (it might be even more difficult to obtain
an organ because most donors would not want to donate for free if they could sell). This
procedure can be made by going to countries such as India, where they can arrange for
transplants in the underground medical sector, and others (such as the late Steve Jobs) manage to
jump the queue by having residence in several states or other means.
2. Allowing legal sales would lead to organ harvesting. People would be kidnapped and
butchered for their organs, especially the poor and ignorant from third-world countries.
3. Even though a person does sell an organ, they do it on the black market. This means
that if things go bad, the seller has no legal recourse and is less likely to receive proper medical
care before, during or after surgery.
4. A market will not exist until supply is brought up to the same level as demand. And
without a market, the free sale of organs will continue to be subject to trafficking and privilege
5. We should give life to others as it was given to us. Human organs should not be sold
on the white market as they should not be sold on the black market. Human organs should be
given freely because life is given freely to us. No one pays for their life when they are born. Your
mother and father give it to you freely. If an organ is available, it should not go to the highest
bidder but the person who needs it the most. We should not monetize organs because the gift of
life should not cost you an arm and a leg.
Now, black-market organ dealers don't do a great job of filing taxes, but here are some
prices based on rumored deals and reports from the World Health Organization. In India, a
kidney fetches around $20,000. In China, buyers will pay $40,000 or more. A good, healthy
kidney from Israel goes for $160,000.
Don't expect to pocket all that dough, though. "The person giving up the organ only
gets a fraction of the fee," says Sally Satel, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute think
tank who studies the prices paid by legal and illegal organ-donor operations. After the organ
brokerthe guy who sets up your kidney-for-cash transactiontakes his cut, he needs to pay for
travel, the surgeon, medical supplies and a few "look-the-other-way" payoffs. Most people get
$1,000 to $10,000 for their kidney (probably much less than you were hoping for).

Luc Nol, who tracks transplantation issues for WHO in Geneva, cited one survey of
kidney donors in Pakistans for-profit market, where two-thirds of the operations are performed
on foreigners. The survey showed that almost 70 percent of donors were slaves or bonded
laborers; 90 percent were illiterate; 88 percent had no improvement in economic status from the
donation; and 98 percent reported a subsequent decline in health, including chronic pain from
large incisions.
Philosopher Samuel Kerstein, post-doctoral fellow in Harvards Program in Ethics and
Health, was wary of markets for organs because of Immanuel Kants Formula of Humanity
in summary, Act always in a way that expresses respect for the value of humanity. To have
value as a person is to have incomparable worth, said Kerstein so a market for organs that
treats the poor as tools available for the right price is wrong. Organ transplantation was
something Kant had a direct opinion of, though he died in 1804. In 18th-century Europe, the
poor were being exploited for their teeth, which were transplanted into the jaws of the willing
rich.