As the world develops, the need for money, exploitation and trade increases and opens many doors for beneficiaries leading them into a whole new universe of unethical criminal acts at service their ego. Organ selling is a commercial activity that falls under this position and is considered part of the black market. As inhumane as the trade bodies may seem, this act is actually judged in many different ways, allowing some parties to argue their point of view by elaborating many advantages arising from such an exchange, and on the other hand, giving the opposing parties the opportunity to highlight the immoral activity known as organ trafficking. Although this type of trafficking is illegal in most countries, this does not prevent traffickers from carrying out the activity on the black market, allowing them to profit financially from the sale of organs (hearts, kidneys, livers...) and victimizing a large number of people. What exactly is organ trading? It is the trading of internal human organs for organ transplantation. Although there is a global shortage of organs available for transplants, organ trade is still illegal in all countries except Iran. The question of whether this act should be considered illegal or not is debatable and raises different opinions validated by different justifications. There is no doubt that this trade in human organs victimizes a large category of people. Indeed, the "desperate donors" who pay the price are usually poor people in developing countries who rely on selling their organs as a way to earn money to improve their family's economic status. However, the sale of their organs affects them indirectly as they are normally cheated by trafficking...... middle of paper ......ck Market Organs: Profits and Disparities in Global Medicine,17(1,2), 6,7. Retrieved from: http://cbhd.org/content/medical-exploitation-and-black-market-organs-profiteering-and-disparities-global-medicine Epstein M.(2007). The Ethics of Poverty and Ethical Poverty: The Case of Palestinian Prisoners in Israel Seeking, 33,473–474. Retrieved from: http://cofs.org/COFS-Publications/Budiani_and_Delmonico-AJT_April_2008.pdf Annas, G. J. (1984). Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Organ Sales, Hastings Center Report, 14, 22–3. Retrieved from: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/organs-sale/Erin, C. and J. Harris, 1994, “A Monopsonistic Market” in Robinson, I. (ed.) The Social Consequences of Life & Death under High-Tech Medicine, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 134–157. Retrieved from: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/respect/
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