104,748 U.S. patients are currently waiting for an organ transplant; more than 4,000 new patients are added to the waiting list each month. Every day, 13 people die while waiting for a kidney transplant. Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney failure patients died in 2008 while waiting for life-saving organ transplants. Is it unfathomable that if consenting adults are allowed to agree to exchange one of their kidneys for payment, then there would be no existence of American people dying on a kidney waiting list? Is it in the spirit of ‘the land of the free’ to deprive people (adults) of engaging in their own decision making? We can export jobs of Americans to China, yet importing kidneys of [consenting adult] foreigners to America TO SAVE LIVES is a crime??!!
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