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Benchmark_Assignment.docx ENG-106 Benchmark Assignment Rising numbers of patients in search of life-saving organ transplantation have resulted in a variety of ethical dilemmas. In a futile effort... to escape mortality, more and more patients continue to search for unconventional ways of seeking a human organ to replace their defective organ. Countries around the world have been pressured to prohibit patients from buying these organs while they consider immoral. In 1984, the National Organ Donation Act 'established the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network, a national mechanism for matching organs and persons in need,' but rather than keeping up with demand, the list of patients in the network has seen a 700 percent raise over 24 years (Brannon, & Batkins, 2016, p. 7). One of the reasons for the scarcity of organs for transplantation is the regulations that prohibit the selling or exchange of human organs. In today's American society, people have a vast amount of freedom to do as they want for their bodies, like bringing an end to the life of an unborn child in the name of granting a woman the right to do what she wants for her body. It is with a sense of confusion that one must ask whether the statute forbids people from selling their organs to save the lives of others. Owing to the unmet need for human organs, "hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for organ transplantation, fueling the black market for human organs" (Leitner, & Capitanini, 2014, para. 8). Present laws penalizing the payo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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