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TOPIC A
Is it ethical, and should it be legal, to allow financial incentives for organ “donation”? |
BACKGROUND:
Organ Donation. Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS), May 31, 2002.
Transcript of a PBS report on the buying and selling of organs.
Payment for Donor Kidneys: Pros and Cons. Kidney International, March 2006.
Debating ways to increase organ supply beats merely complaining about the current system.
YES:
Should the Purchase and Sale of Organs for Transplant Surgery be Permitted? Becker-Posner Blog, January 1, 2006.
Nobel-laureate economist argues that markets in organs are the best way for people with defective organs to get transplants.
Rewards for Organ Donation: The Time has Come. Kidney International, March 2006.
Proposes a government-run system of financial rewards for living and deceased organ donation.
Kidneys Needed. Washington Post, October 15, 2006.
Editorial arguing that incentives for organ donors could save lives.
NO:
Ethical Incentives - Not Payment - For Organ Donation. New England Journal of Medicine, June 20, 2002.
Argues that a market system of organ donations is ethically unacceptable.
Body Values: The Case Against Compensating for Transplant Organs. The Hastings Center Report, Jan./Feb. 2004.
Proposals to pay for organs, which assume that the body can be treated as property, are out of step with the rest of the culture.
Organ Donation: A Communitarian Approach. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, March 2003.
Advocates changing the moral culture so that people see donating organs as the right thing to do.
AND SEE ALSO:
Whose Organs are They, Anyway? Reason, June 26, 2003.
Tangential to the compensation issue, this is about LifeSharers, a group whose members agree to have their organs made available for transplant upon death, on the condition that other members of the group get preferential access to those organs.
Organ Sales and Moral Travails:
Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran. Cato Institute, March 20, 2008.
Although Iran may not be a model for solving most of the world's problems, its method for solving its organ shortage is worth examining. |
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TOPIC B
Should U.S. immigration policy create a path to citizenship for undocumented workers? |
BACKGROUND:
Immigration Slips as a Priority. Pew Research Center, January 15, 2009.
Only three-in-ten Latinos rated immigration as an "extremely important" issue facing the incoming Obama administration as it took office in early 2009.
YES:
The Many Facets of Effective Immigration Reform (pdf). Immigration Policy Center, February 19, 2009.
We need to create a
pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants who are already here so that they can no longer be exploited by unscrupulous employers who hang the threat of deportation over their heads.
The Next Immigration Challenge. The New York Times, January 11, 2012.
We must shift from an immigration policy, with its emphasis on keeping newcomers out, to an immigrant policy, with an emphasis on encouraging migrants and their children to integrate into our social fabric. (NY Times site link here.)
Immigration Myths and Facts. American Civil Liberties Union, April 11, 2008.
Immigration has a positive effect on the American economy as a whole and on the income of native-born workers.
NO:
Immigration, Poverty, and Low-Wage Earners (pdf). Federation for American Immigration Reform, May 2011.
This lengthy report by a major group opposed to immigration reform argues against giving permanent status to millions who are not needed in the workforce. Executive summary here.
Time to Stop the Rush for "Amnesty" Immigration Reform. Heritage Foundation, March 18, 2010.
Instead of amnesty, focus on fixing problems along the border, in cities, and in the U.S. visa system.
Employer Sanctions. Federation for American Immigration Reform, March 2005.
Undocumented workers would cease to come or to stay illegally if they knew that employers would not hire them.
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