Arthur Matas: "The Case for Living Kidney Sales"

I. A Shortage of Kidneys for Transplantation

II. One Possible Solution: a Regulated Market in Kidneys

III. Considerations in Favor of a Regulated Market (2009)

It would decrease deaths among patients waiting for transplants.

Donating a kidney is and ought to be legal. So what's wrong with selling one?

We already permit the sale of human sperm and eggs, so why not permit the sale of human kidneys?

Establishing regulated markets might reduce black markets. 

IV. (Ultimately Unpersuasive) Objections to a Regulated Market (2010-2012)

It would involve exploitation of the poor. 

". . . the 'exploitation' argument centers on whether a regulated system of organ sales takes wrongful advantage of the calamity of others and on whether the financial offer will override the better judgment of individuals in desperate need" (2011).

It would involve 'commodification of the body'