THBT organ donation should be mandatory

Organ donation: Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person
for transplantation into another. Experts say that the organs from one donor can save or help as
many as 50 people. Organs you can donate include

Internal organs: Kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs

Skin

Bone and bone marrow

Cornea

Mandatory: Mandatory organ donation.  No choice in the matter.  When you die, your organs will be
taken if they are healthy and acceptable

-proposition: key factors:

1. Society based on helping each other

2. Economics: the more healthy people the work, the more active society.
3. Research in science, more jobs, development.
4. demand of organ donation outweighs the supply of organ donation
a. black market of organ donations industries are created which do not now have
the following:
i. secure procedures
ii. insurance
iii. decent payment
b. by making organ donation mandatory, an equilibrium point between demand and supply
will naturally by created and will allow for the following
i. acceptable health procedures
ii. insurance
iii. decent payment
c. evidence:
i. Statistics indicate that approximately every 18 minutes, someone is added to the
national waiting list for organ transplant
ii. This will be prevented by allowing mandatory organ donation
iii. And it has positive spillover
iv. Such as decreasing or increasing prices that are decent and right
5. Many people waiting and die waiting for the organ.
6. for transplantation or for research that will lead to improvements in the treatment and prevention
of disease."
7. Service records show that more than 8,000 Brits are waiting for organ transplants. Fewer than
3,000 procedures are carried out each year. The need is also high in the US. It is estimated that
roughly 10 American patients die each day while waiting for an organ.

-------right of religion

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Black-Market-in-Human-Organs&id=452874
http://www.donorroom.com/Organs/OrgansInfo.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organdonation.html

http://bobsnewheart.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/controversy-mandatory-organ-donation-no-
exceptions/

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/05/india_transplants_donorpolicy

-opposition: key factors:

1. Violation of human rights- ethics ----- research!

2. Religious believes

2. right to religion

3. Political aspects- who will be in control? Who will choose where it’s going to?

4. Health issues – who wants a unhealthy organ?

5. Costs ---- everyone has to be checked

6. Roughly half a million people around the world suffer from kidney failure and many are willing to
pay any price for a donor organ. They have two options: wait on impossibly long donation lists or pay
someone for a live donor transplant.

7. track on healthy bodies…. Room for error!