Abstrakt:
Despite organ donation systems running in numerous states around the globe, the shortage of transplant organs is a worldwide public health problem. This raises a question, why - when there clearly is both demand and offer - not make organ sale legal?
From the moral point of view, there are four main objections to permitting organ sale: 1. exploitation, commodification, and instrumentalisation of the seller and her body; 2. harm and risk that the seller undergoes; 3. concerns about autonomy and consent; and lastly, 4. concerns about the practice of free donation that would supposedly be undermined by the permission of organ sale.