It absolutely should be made legal. Any and all the ethical concerns that exist now would disappear if it were allowed. As long as it remains in the black market, donors can be murdered for organs (and here I do not refer to the halachic debate about brain death vs. heart death) and you wouldn’t know it, donors can be sick or otherwise unqualified to donate, and you wouldn’t know it. If it were legal and regulated, you immediately lose these problems. The editorial couldn’t have said it better.
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