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Commodification and exploitation: arguments in favour of compensated organ donation
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- Published on: 4 January 2006
- Published on: 4 January 2006What is an acceptable saleable body part?Show More
Dear Editor,
I truly don't understand why a competent person is a felon for deciding to sell one of their own body parts to give potential life to another person. The lack of donors (supply) is well documented. Yet, I read on craigslist.org EVERY day in the job classifieds ad after ad for sperm donors ($600) and egg donors ($1500). I honestly don't get the difference. I know I cruised through quickly some of the a...
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