Selling Organs To Pay For Tuition Stirs Ethical Debate

Aug 8, 2011
by Matt McKinney

London, England -- A debate is raging in the United Kingdom over the prospect of allowing students to sell organs for tuition money.

"We allow them to burden themselves with these debts" to attend college, Dined University's Sue Rabbitt Roff wrote in an article published in the British Medical Journal. "Why can't we allow them to do a very kind and generous thing but also meet their own needs?"

Roff is insisting that a ban on selling the organs be overturned. She figures student could get around $46,000 per kidney, roughly the average annual income in the country. the rest