Response to Joey Tennyson's, "Organs for Sale?"

I disagree with Joey Tennyson's post, "Organs for Sale", found at http://jtennysonlsc100f09.blogspot.com/. His opinion on the topic is that people should be able to sell there organs. One of his main points on the issue is that people own their own organs, and they should have the right what to do with them. Obviously, I agree that people own their body parts, but there are just to many negatives to selling them. If people got the right to sell their organs, many would take it to an extreme, and overall could hurt themselves severely. Many poor people would start selling their organs just to receive money. It seems way to unethical to me, and would be looked at as a downfall to our country.

Another point on the issue that he stated, was that it would allow for more organs to be available. Yes, I agree that more would be available, but the issue of them not all being sufficient could lead to many problems. For example, if a person buys a organ for a lot of money and then it ends up not working, a huge lawsuit could happen, especially if the person dies from the surgery. This would cause a lot of issues that our country doesn't need right now. Overall, I disagree with Joey's opinion completely. In my opinion there are just to many downfalls of selling organs, and if we decided to, it would lead to many consequences that we just don't need.