Debate Paper

GROUP 4:
Juliana Abriol
Allison Cerdan
Dawson Doroteo
Caitlin Magao

What is Mandatory Donation?

● Mandatory Organ Donation is taking healthy organs and tissues from one person for
transplantation for another.
● Organ donation is known to save/ help over as many as 50 people

Our Stance: Our Stance is that we approve/are on the pro side of mandatory organ donation

Outline

Why Mandatory Organ Donation should be approved

The reason is the following:

● Mandatory Donation saves/improves many lives. Everyone has the right to live a full and
happy life, donating organs to those in need heavily impacts the person who receives it
as it becomes a life-changing event.

● Nowadays, graveyards around the world are now losing space, donating organs could
help not only lessen the death rate across countries
● In some cultures, it’s more humane to preserve the body rather than donating their
organs. (Christianity: Buried in a coffin) but in a logical and efficient way, donating
organs as is a beneficial way in a community

PROS
● Mandatory organ donation could increase the donor pool, making more lives be saved.
● Organ donation comes for free, the family of the donor does not get charged.
● Mandatory organ donation helps reduce the number of ilegall organ trafficking.
● Mandatory organ donation would speed up the process of transplantation which can
save even more lives than what was planned.
● More donations could be used for research purposes in order to find new cures for
certain illnesses and also discovering new illnesses.
● If you donate your organs you would have the knowledge of saving someone’s life.

CONS
● Organ donations requires surgery, it comes with it’s risks that could potentially harm the
nearby organs and tissues even possibly death.
 ● It takes a very long time for the donor’s body to fully recover from the surgery.
● Mandatory organ donation removes the person’s choice on what’s going to happen to
their body after death.
● Sometimes the recipient’s body could reject the organ.
● Not everyone can be an organ donor.
● Organ transplantation is really expensive.

POSIBBLE REBUTTALS TO OUR POSITION:

● The patient who is deceased did not give any consent into donating their organs.
● Mandatory organ donation is taking away their freedom to choose what they want to do
with their body
● Mandatory organ donation is disrespectful for the dead

POSSIBLE COUNTER REBUTTALS:

(This could apply to all possible rebuttals)

● There is a certain system of organ donation. (They are called opt-in and opt-out) in the
opt-out system, the donor is automatically presumed to have given their full consent to
donate their organs before their death unless they had made a specific request to not
become a donor.

SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS/ REFERENCES:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/organ-donation/art-
20047529
https://www.defensivedriving.org/dmv-handbook/what-you-need-to-know-about-becoming-an-
organ-donor/

https://netivist.org/debate/organ-donation-pros-and-cons
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/organ-transplant-donor-information

https://m.ufhealth.org/blog/facts-and-benefits-organ-donation