Organ transplantation plays a significant role in advancing medical science and potentially enhancing the quality of life for recipients. The practice, however, is surrounded by complex social, legal, and ethical issues.
It could improve the recipient's health depending if the body accepts the new organs but it could quite guarantee to save lives.
Organ Transplant can help education expand upon learning more and more about our organs and we can maybe find a way to make it easier for our patients.
People in poor countries sometimes struggle to survive and get food more frequently than first world countries and a lot of them get offered to sell their organs by rich first nation buyers. Most of the poor people accept the offer so they can survive.
A lot of people agree with giving away their organs in hopes of furthering scientific development and hopefully finding a cure for some of the diseases that still haunt humans.
Many families stand against organ transplant because of their own religious beliefs, faiths or they just don't want anything done to their dead family members.
Legal/Ethical Consequences
Buying or selling organs could get you convicted and subject to a fifty thousand dollars fine and 5 years of imprisonment.
Organ donors sometimes sign an agreement to give away their tissues or organs after death.
The only way Organ Transplant could be done in these countries is through organ donations. But there are not enough donors to help stop the growing waiting list.
It is against the law to sell organs/tissues/cells in first world countries like Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Australia. The reason they are illegal is because of how poor people who could easily be persuaded to give in could be scammed or ripped off, and it was also made to protect people from the dangers of illegal organ transplant.
Scientific Consequences
If being sold, it motivates people to give their organs because they get paid and it could help the already increasing waiting list.
It furthers the field and it could improve the quality of organ transplants.
Economic Consequences
Organ Transplant doesn't exactly impact the economy as majority but it does so negatively due to its illegality.
The impact this causes on employment is that more people who are surgeons will find more pay in illegal organ transplant than normal transplant for donors or even hospitals.
Personal Consequences
It affects me because organ transplant is illegal and most of the illegal deals taking place are dangerous. And if I ever need a new organ I will have to join the waiting list with pretty low chances.
Organ transplants are mostly illegal in First World nations and for that it can be easily done in third world countries in the dark without getting caught. It's also easier in poor countries because most of the people there are poor.
The reciepent's body could reject the new organ/tissue replacement, and could possibly lead to death. or surgery.