Female Genital Cutting, Buying and Selling Body Parts
A serious ethical issue arises on whether people should be allowed to sell their body parts. People who support legalization of selling and buying of body parts argues that the act will make transplant of body organs such as kidney more effective, and reliable. Legal transplants of the body are common in the Western countries, and the debate on whether buying and selling of body parts should be allowed exists mainly between utilitarian, deontologists, and virtue theorists.
Buying and selling of body parts have both some advantages and disadvantage, the reason that has made the act become an ethical issue (Santamaría,2017). Transplanting of kidneys from the donor to the receiver helps in saving lives. However, the supply of the organs used in the transplant is limited. Therefore, organ transplants can help to save lives. On the other case, the selling of the body organs causes danger to the donors of the organs, hence making the act become an ethical dilemma. Utilitarian philosophers argue that the sale of body parts should be allowed as long as at the end the action will be beneficial.
Deontologists argue that the sell body organs should not be allowed even if it helps in saving a life because the donor of the body organ is subjected to unnecessary surgical procedures. All body parts should not be treated the same because some are more essential to life than others. A human being can survive without a hand but cannot survive without a kidney. Therefore, I propose that somebody parts that can save lives should be allowed to be sold to make transplants more effective.
In summary, selling and buying of body parts is a controversial ethical issue. Utilitarian allows selling of body organs at certain conditions while deontologists do not allow. Only essential body parts for life such as kidney should be sold to make transplants more effective and reliable.