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Should the Sale of Kidneys Be Legalized?
Watch the video Reason.tv’s Drew Carey Project II- Kidneys for sale (new window) (7:28).
this is the link:  https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=xFsZ2gYmE

The hospitals, doctors, insurance companies and others profit from kidney transplants.  But donors are prohibited from doing so. (1) Should it be legal for a person to profit from the sale of one of their kidneys?  Why or why not?  (2) Between three and four thousand people die every year because a transplant donor is unavailable.  What would happen to the supply of kidney transplant donors if the sale of kidneys was legalized?

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