> We have a long waiting list for recipients, and we don't have an excess of donors to be picky with.
That’s not how this works. Organ donation is inherently picky and fallible: without that pickiness, you get coerced organ donation and people undergoing mental crises seeking a form of salvation.
I don’t understand where the moral judgement or grudge determination came from: everything I’ve said is a prima facie plausible reason to reject a donation candidate on basic medical ethics grounds.
That international organ trade still operates as a black market. So it's hard to compare that with being less picky about organ donors.
The very pdf you linked to even mentions 'Reducing U.S. Demand for Trafficked Organs' as one of the policy avenues to pursue to help combat trafficking of organs. Being less picky about donors in the US seems exactly like what you'd need to do to reduce that kind of demand.
You might also want to look into the situation in Iran, where financial compensation for organ donors is legal.
That’s not how this works. Organ donation is inherently picky and fallible: without that pickiness, you get coerced organ donation and people undergoing mental crises seeking a form of salvation.
I don’t understand where the moral judgement or grudge determination came from: everything I’ve said is a prima facie plausible reason to reject a donation candidate on basic medical ethics grounds.