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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Why donate one for free? Because it's illegal in the US to get paid for it and donating one gets you to the top of the list if you need a transplant later on. I dated a girl who had donated a kidney to a friend. She said there was an exhaustuve investigation beforehand to make sure no money was changing hands. I think it's outrageous that it's illegal to sell your organs. Where the hell does the gov't get the power to ban that? It would solve a lot of shortages very quickly and fix some folks' financial problems too.
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I can see both sides of the issue. With an open market some folks would be selling kidneys from kidnap victims. The urban legend of the guy waking up in a bathtub full of ice could come to pass.
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