Assessing Moral Arguments Against Living Organ Donation by Prisoners
Year: 2007
Type: preprint
Abstract: Because of their limited rights within the penal system, prisoners are generally considered to be especially vulnerable to certain kinds of coercion and exploitation. It is in part to protect prisoners from these abuses that their freedom to be living organ donors is restricted. Many in the transplant and bioethics communities support these restrictions based on moral grounds. In this manuscript, we assess these moral arguments and suggest that they may not be sufficiently compelling to justify current restrictions on living organ donation by prisoners.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Authors: Andrew Millis, Matthew Devitt, Mary Simmerling
Institutions: Rhodes College, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medicine
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W32347398