The Government Should Not Pay Taxpayers for Their Kidneys

Once again, well-meaning advocates are pushing kidney-selling as a means to shorten the organ transplant waiting list.

The push is on to pass the (HR 2687) before the end of the current Congress. The bill would start a pilot program in which the government would buy kidneys from living people — through a $50,000 total ($10,000 per year) tax credit — if they’re “donating” (selling) to a stranger.

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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith is an author and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism.

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Once again, well-meaning advocates are pushing kidney-selling as a means to shorten the organ transplant waiting list.

The push is on to pass the (HR 2687) before the end of the current Congress. The bill would start a pilot program in which the government would buy kidneys from living people — through a $50,000 total ($10,000 per year) tax credit — if they’re “donating” (selling) to a stranger.