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Andre, Claire, and Manuel Velasquez. "Kidneys for Sale." Santa Clara University. 2008. 9 Dec. 2008 .

This article is written by two authors of a newsletter called, Issues in Ethics that is run out of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics in Santa Clara University. Just by knowing this it is clear that the authors devote a lot of time to studying and researching different ethical problems. Their article, Kidneys for Sale, discusses two differing reasons for allowing and not allowing the sale of organs. First they argue that we need to be able to sell organs to prevent deaths, but then they counter this argument by saying that the rich will benefit while the poor will suffer with the sale of organs. This article also focuses a lot of the justice and morals of an organ market.

Richards, Radcliffe J. "Commentary. An ethical market in human organs. (Controversy)." Gale Cengage Learning. 17 Mar. 2003. 9 Dec. 2008 .

This source was actually originally taken from a medical magazine/journal which specifically focuses on medical ethics, so therefore this is a great and very reliable source for my research paper. This article very thoroughly discusses the issue of organ sale and goes more into detail about the ethics of it because it was published in a medical magazine/journal, more medical professionals are more inclined to read it and therefore the wording is more sophisticated and the author assumes that the reader already knows the basics of an organ market. So this article will be very beneficial to my research paper when going into the finer details of the viewpoints of organ selling. The author explains the history of the ethical debate of the sale of organs and then goes on to discuss the validity of reasons and opinions both for and against a free organ market. This article talks more about the actual debate of the sale of organs rather than the viewpoints.