Should we legalize the sale of human organs?
823213
no, china is still exectuting people, and lots of Europeans are travelling there to buy organs.  Because the orgens cost so much money, and there is a big demand for them, there is no way of knowing if the chinese are executing people too early (ie if their trial has finished)or if they will execute someone just for the money.  Its a sick situation.
597916
Yes, you can. My mother smoked most of her life and died of heart disease. They could use her skin and eyes and some bone, and I donated them. She was older, so most of the other organs weren't good for donation.
506125
It is up to the parents and loved ones to determine the fate of a newborn relative to an organ donation. But wouldn't it be a wonderful world if during this time of grief people were able to accept the fate of their child and then be able to be compassionate to others with critically ill children, who will share their same fate, by donating an organ or organs to save a life. In the short life span of the newborn it will have come into this world and saved anothers life. What a noble and unselfish life to have led. I have 3 children, all healthy, Thank God, whom if any were to die I would hope I would help another suffering parent with the gift of life. In times of utter dispair I always ask myself what would Jesus ask me to due and then try to do it.
224688
People might have different views about cloning. But  if  organs are cloned for people who cant find any donors ,then its right and should be encouraged.But this technology should be handled with extra care, so that it may not get misused
773408
Yes, I feel it is perfectly ethical. You are desposing of a parasite that can't survive outside the womb. Without an abortion, it is adding another unwanted child to this already overpopulated world.
712134
Your body parts are invaluable to you, and to those lucky recipients who would recieve one after your death.  As you are aware, it is illegal to sell organs and illegal to purchase them.  Anyone who would pay you is already breaking the law, and at that point you become more of a liability to them to keep alive after the organ is harvested.  They also tend not to be really careful doing the surgery, inept is the word that comes to mind most often, and you of course would be the loser.  Which still makes your organs more valuable to you inside you than sold to the highest bidder.  Aside from being illegal, it's immoral practice no decent doctor would take part in.  Even if somebody did know more information, you can bet they certainly wouldn't discuss it on an answer forum such as this.  Conducting illegal business via the web is a bit risky.
401831
Well, that depends on what substances you are talking about.  Personally, I think that an adult should be allowed to engage in activities that are not harmful to anyone else and do not infringe on the rights of others.  Having said that, I do not necessarily believe that full legalization is the way to go.  In the case of marijuana, for instance, it is theorized that the price might actually increase if the government started regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana.  I think a more logical solution, at least in the case of marijuana, would be decriminalization.  The government would not regulate the industry; instead, they could monitor the sale of the plant to minors, insuring that everyone who chooses to buy marijuana is an adult(just like cigarettes).
98098
We are.  The law states that corporations are citizens with all the rights that go with that.  Corporations may have organs, but none of them is a heart, a brain, a lung, or a soul.  We need to refine our laws so that this inequivalence is reflected in our law, and we can hold corporations as accountable as our human citizens.  Aside from that, there will probably always be some crime among humans, and likewise crime among corporations.
483775
yes, it should be legalized. if you can't get rid of it at least you should be able to control it.
498847
The world is already overpopulated and there are too many unwanted or orphaned children. Why would we need to clone a person except to use them as non-humans such as organ producers for organ donation or as slaves, etc. No matter which way you look at it, it is the arrogance of man who is messing with something he has not thought through. The consequences of this capability will be nothing but negative.
482408
no i don't think any drugs should be legal at all, look at all the damage it does to people and their families not to mention the money spent on them.  Not even cigarettes should be legal, who wants to throw their life away or give themselves diseases.  Besides drugs only need to be taken once to kill somebody.
267809
The Bible is really silent on the issue as it was not around in the period of time it was written.  The Bible does say that no greater love has any man than to lay down his life for another.  Taking that and looking at organ donation, I think that God would be very pleased that we would give our useless organs to another to save their lives.  What use do we have with them if we are dead?  It serves a greater good to help another and if God says that the greatest love is to lay our lives down for another, giving life when our lives are gone seems almost redundant...of course we should.  Hope this helps.
767308
It could open up reproductive possibilities for sterile couples. It could help reduce instances of genetic diseases such as Down's Syndrome or sickle cell anemia. Switching tracks a little, cloning individual organs (not whole humans) could help improve transplant stock, not only by creating more organs for transplant, but also by cutting down on instances of organ rejection. \n\nRemember, though: no one is talking about actually cloning humans these days. Those genetic experts who are involved in cloning projects are either concerned with animals, organs, or single-cell organisms. Hope this helps put the question into a little bit of perspective!
849937
Part of me thinks it is acceptable with the alcoholics/smokers thing because if I donated my organs I'd want them to go to someone who would deserve & appreciate them not just use them to be able to cause a bit more damage to themselves.\n\nI'd draw the line at the white,black,chinese,muslim bit because at the end of the day as long as that person isn't going to abuse that organ again we're all just people wanting to get better,it doesn't matter what race or religion we are.
214830
Organ sales are ILLEGAL.
958756
These are different issues.  Abortion is legal but drugs are not legal.\n\nActually, I think the US should legalize some drugs and pot and make money taxing the substances.
823252
Wow, this opens up a can of worms.  Be prepared to duck; you may get some very sharpish answers!\n\nFor what it's worth (FWIW), I've heard that some very conservative Christians are not very happy with the idea of organ donation because they want to be resurrected with all their parts.  \n\n(Personally, things are going to decay anyway, I figure, and I cannot see how an omnipotent Deity is going to be slowed up significantly if someone's minus a few tissues....But I'll leave it for such believers to believe as they choose, and if I've misunderstood their doctrine, hope they'll accept it as an honest goof and not malicious.)   \n\nI understand that some of the more conservative Jewish groups feel that autopsies and such are disrespectful to the dead, and THINK that some Muslim groups have similar beliefs.  However, do NOT know whether the potential "good" and charity that can come from saving life overrides such "disrespect". \n\nI've found, again FWIW, that people in the more "liberal"  denominations (examples:  Quaker/Friends, United Church of Christ), Unitarians, and Pagans/Wiccans tend to be very vigorously IN FAVOR of donating organs and tissues, on the basis of "hey, let's not waste them, and we can do some wonderful good for a number of people".  \n\nHowever, individual people may vary.  You may need to check for "policy papers" on organ donation for each separate spiritual denomination/belief, if you want better data....but this is going to be almost impossible for the atheists/agnostics, and also for the Pagans/Wiccans (because we're independent-minded and ornery as cats, and HAVE no centralized religious governing body to set policy).\n\nI signed the "organ donor" designation on my license right when turning legal age....and before that, told my parents to donate anything and everything as my last wish.  Was raised Lutheran (Missouri Synod---one of the more conservative L.), but now am a very happy Goddess-worshipping Pagan.