Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Is it wrong to sell your body?
Corruption in New Jersey is depressingly unsurprising, so the most interesting news to come out of last week's mass arrests was about the group of rabbis who had been selling organs. They were allegedly raking in the bucks buying organs low ($10,000) from poor donors and selling them high ($150,000) to the wealthy. Obviously, that kind of profiteering seems wrong, but what about the actual transaction?
An article in Slate explains why the rabbis would be OK with selling organs: their priority is the preservation of life above all else. If you have to pay people to get the organ donated, you do it.
And a column in U.S. News and World Report makes another good point. If we let women be paid for providing their eggs, what's so different about a kidney?
This is one scandal that will keep bioethicists busy for a while.
Labels: ethics
posted by Stacey Butterfield at
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