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Old 06-03-2008, 05:03 PM
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It is not a win win, donating a kindey would likely lead to long term medical problems with people, which society as a whole would have to pay for. And basically you are encouraging poor people to sacrifice their long term health for a short term fiscal benefit.
Organ transplants have become less risky in recent years and when donors are selected they are picked from people who are healthy enough that they wouldn’t need their own transplant someday.

You are avoiding the bigger question, isn’t it more wrong do allow thousands of people to die every year from a man-made kidney shortage?
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