For many years the Church has tried to help as many people as possible, however, now we are realizing an epidemic that is nearly world wide of providing enough organ transfers for those who need them. Organ sales are currently illegal in almost every country, which has created a corrupt black market system. This black market system is flawed with favoring the rich, exploiting the poor, and putting innocent lives in danger. The job of the Church is to work to uphold the standards within the Bible, the standards of helping as many as possible and protecting the body as a temple. By legalizing the sale and transactions of organs, there would be a surplus of organs available to those who would usually not be able to receive them and they would …show more content…
For people living in grief stricken poverty, many of them are found to be refugees or even poor citizens that have no luck of getting a job. These individuals find themselves at a crossroad, a road that one way leads to money or the other way leads to no money. The obvious choice and their only choice is to comply with the black market of organs and sell their organs for money. Many will say “That any market based system will necessarily be exploitative of the poor since they’re the ones who’ll be most tempted to take the risks in order to get the rewards. The poor of Pakistan and China have shown willingness to sell corneas on the black market for money. A market system – black or otherwise – exploits such abject poverty” (Clark). This system that we see working behind closed doors in many poor countries, is at flaw since it favors the rich and exploits the …show more content…
Once the patient leaves the facility, the doctors and traffickers could care less if they did not survive the brutal recovery process. A 29 year old Syrian refugee, Yasser, fled from the Syrian war to Cairo in search of a new and better life. Along with many of the problems refugees face, Yasser could not find any work and he had no money. In Egypt, Yasser heard from others that organ traffickers would pay for one of his kidneys, “I was new to Egypt. I did not have any money, and I couldn’t find a job, so my only choice was to sell my left kidney” (Hamdo). An organ broker met with him and he, “Sold it for $3,000 to someone I knew nothing about. We met for no more than 15 minutes before we closed the deal” (Hamdo). Yasser’s illegal operation left him emotionally and physically damaged. Facing his new reality, Yasser explains “I will never forgive myself for what I did. It was the worst decision of my life” (Hamdo). This story is the epitome of an organ transaction between the donor, the doctor, and the broker. Both the doctor and broker do not care for the patient after the operation is over, they only care about their cut of the profit, “In a market—even a regulated one—doctors and nurses still would be using their skills to help people harm themselves solely for money. The resulting distrust and loss of professional