Organ - donation - Transplant
Organ donation and transplant remains one of the most regulated health practices to date by federal and legislative law. Legislation and control on organ donation is important to ensure equitable allocation, distribution and transplantation of the donated organ. Donated organs can either be from a dead person or living. The overseeing agency for organ donation is the health resources and services administration that work towards the achievement of the federal governments mandate in organ donation and transplantation control.
The federal government should not be involved in organ donation and transplanting neither should it control the process of organ allocation from the donor to the recipient. Organ donation is a choice; an individual will arrive, at the decision to be an organ donor and in some situations one will choose to donate their organ to a deserving patient. Instances where the government tries to stop this impedes on an individual's right to choose. Should a person choose to give a part of their liver to a patient of their choice, the government should not hold the decision whether the said patient should receive the organ.
[...] Bottom of Form Top of Form Goodwin, Michele. Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts. New York: Cambridge University Press Print. Bottom of Form Top of Form Halstead, Boronia, and Paul R. Wilson. "body Crime": Human Organ Procurement and Alternatives to the International Black Market. Canberra, A.C.T: Australian Institute of Criminology Print. [...]
[...] Donated organs can either be from a dead person or living. The overseeing agency for organ donation is the health resources and services administration that work towards the achievement of the federal governments mandate in organ donation and transplantation control. The federal government should not be involved in organ donation and transplanting neither should it control the process of organ allocation from the donor to the recipient. Organ donation is a choice; an individual will arrive, at the decision to be an organ donor and in some situations one will choose to donate their organ to a deserving patient. [...]
[...] Control measures will ensure less or no lives are lost while waiting in the list and an increase in organ donation due to the prospects of compensation (Halstead & Wilson 35) In the matter of federal government decision to disallow usable organs to go to waste; an individual should hold the decision of whether or not their organs should be used upon their demise rather than the government allowing the harvesting of organs just because there are patients in need of the organs. Therefore, to address this problem, the government should also put in place effective systems for presumed consent that allows one to donate organs after death. Work Cited Top of Form Grinkovskiy, Petr T. Organ Donation: Supply, Policies and Practices. New York: Nova Science Internet resource. [...]
[...] The government should have no legislation whatsoever over a person's choice to receive payment for an organ donation. Were it to be allowed, sale of organs would not only help save lives that can be saved, but also financially help the family of the donor. Take the example of a chronically ill individual on their death bed but with healthy usable organs fit for transplant; why would this person or their family be barred from selling the organs to aid in offsetting bills arising from prolonged hospital stays? [...]
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