Should We Be Allowed to Sell Our Bodies?

I believe that an individual owns his or her own body. That means that they own the cells they have, the tissues, the organs, and everything else. So I think that a person ahs the right to sell his or her own body organs. Personally, I think it is stupid, because if you have organs in your body they are there for a reason, but if a person wants to sell them than that is their own decision. The circumstances that they should be able to sell them under are if someone else is in need for an organ, and will die without it, then someone else should be allowed to sell that to them. After reading the article “Sell Organs to Save Lives” by Martin Wilkinson, his opinions within the article completely agree with my own. When he states, “People should not be stopped from selling their organs because they have a right to do what they want with their bodies,” that is exactly my own viewpoint. If the person is not harming anyone else with what they do with their body, and in reality they would just be helping them, then why shouldn’t they be allowed to do what they want? There is also the chance that more organs would be available if people were allowed to sell their organs. There is also the chance that there would be a decline, which is also mentioned in the article. But I believe that if there could be a good outcome of legalizing the selling of organs, and if it backfires you can make it illegal again. There is always a need for transplants, and if we are able to make more organs available, more people have that chance of survival. I don’t think that ethical issues even come in to this argument, from my opinion, because you own your body, and what you decide to do with it is your own business and no one else’s.