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Roughly 10% of all organ transplants in the world are obtained on the black market. A new investigation by puts a brutal face on that underground world.
Informed, willing and healthy prisoners should not be deprived of the opportunity to help the sick while improving their own prospects once they are free.
Legalizing the sale of organs will correct, not copy, the sins of the organ black market.
There is nothing bizarre or macabre about the reciprocal benefits of incentivized organ donation.
It is time for a state to challenge the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act and offer funeral benefits or some other reward to the estate of those who will give their organs at death.
Singapore's new law is a positive step toward making the transplant market more transparent.
Governments must provide in-kind incentives in order to spur organ donations, as altruism cannot be the sole legitimate motive for donating, and to achieve the true end of saving more lives.
Did Steve Jobs' wealth buy him a faster liver transplant? It certainly helped--and the Apple CEO's odyssey showcases some of the problems with organ donations in America.





