I respectfully disagree with Paul Yonga's post entitled, "Organs for Sale", found at http://pyongalsc100f10.blogspot.com/. One of the main arguments in this blog says that people should not be able to sell their organs because it makes them a commodity. I do not agree with this because people would not be forced to sell their organs, it would be their choice. If a person wants to sell their body, or parts of their body, for someone else's benefit, they should be allowed to. The fact is, every person in the world owns his or her body, so he or she should be able to do anything and everything with that body. I do not think this is a good argument to keep the sales of people's organs illegal.
Paul's second argument says that people would be putting themselves at a large risk because selling organs involves surgery. Although I do agree that surgery always puts people at risk of possible failures or mistakes made by doctors, I still disagree with his main point. As long as people have a choice, selling organs should be legal. If someone in desperate need of money is willing to put his or her life on the line, he or she should be able to make his or her own decision. Part of life is making difficult decisions and living, or not living with them. Paul has several decent arguments about why selling organs should be illegal, but I still believe it should be legal to sell organs because people own their bodies.
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