The Ban on Organ Sales: Do Misguided Policies Cost Lives?

Each year, thousands of people die because they cannot obtain a kidney or other vital organ. Increased efforts to encourage altruistic organ donation have met with only limited success. Yet global and national policies continue to constrain or prohibit the use of regulated markets for organs. Can the ethical principles on which these policy barriers rest bear the weight of contributing to the deaths of many people who might otherwise have lived? Professor Radcliffe Richards will present her views, followed by comments and discussion among a distinguished panel and the audience.