A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea
Originally published at The Epoch TimesIt is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys.
The need to increase the number of kidneys for transplant is, of course, very real. More than 100,000 patients are on waiting lists to receive “the gift of life” in the United States. Moreover, currently the supply from dead and altruistic living donors is insufficient to meet the need, which is why some advocates want to pay people to sell one of their two kidneys.
The latest such call can be found in a recent New York Times op-ed column, written by journalist Dylan Walsh, whose own life was saved by his father’s living kidney donation.
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