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Old 05-09-2008, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
Why would they not get organs any less then they do now? If organs could be sold on the open market then the price would go down, not up. Its the concept, I know foreign to liberals, of supply and demand. If the supply rises then the price goes down. More poor people would be able to receive transplants than do so now.

Why are you trying to keep the price from falling and thereby really helping the poor?
how are they going to afford these organs?
some can't afford to pay hardly anything and pray for free clinics and the like to assit them. right now the organs are free, its the hospitals and surgery that cost money. how is adding a new charge going to help?

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They wouldn’t be forced to do anything, it would be voluntary. Is it not equally immoral to deprive them of that option? Why should they not be allowed to make extra money that would improve their lives?

I shouldn’t poor person be compensated for his kidney? It seems to me the poor would greatly benefit under this arrangement.
it could be used a form of coersion. many poor people are faced with having to put their health at risk to make money. and thats wrong.
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