Selling one's body parts

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Is it generally wrong to sell organs that regenerate, such as blood or blood plasma? There was an ad in my paper a couple weeks ago offering money to people who would give their plasma to a big-name pharmaceutical company (I can only assume for medical research). I know that donating blood is an work of mercy because you’re helping to heal the sick, but is selling it morally neutral or is it evil?
 
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Is it generally wrong to sell organs that regenerate, such as blood or blood plasma? There was an ad in my paper a couple weeks ago offering money to people who would give their plasma to a big-name pharmaceutical company (I can only assume for medical research). I know that donating blood is an work of mercy because you’re helping to heal the sick, but is selling it morally neutral or is it evil?
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It would depend on the situation. For example, if a person needs money to survive and all they could do is sell a regenerating organ in order to survive. Where does the sin lie, especially if the person is mentally ill and the state decided to cut back on its mental hospitals and therefore force people on the street. (this is happening all over, btw.)

This reminds me of Les Miserables where Fantine sells her hair, her teeth, and eventually her body via prostitution in order to feed her child. Sometimes it is society that is sinning by turning a blind eye and ignoring the marginalized.

If you were doing well financially, and you were also the only one in the world whose bone marrow could save a leukemia victim and you had the gall to say: How much are you going to pay me? That would be sinful, IMO.
 
I can’t see what’s sinful about it. We sell our time every day and that doesn’t even regenerate 🙂

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I don’t know if it is sinful to sell plasma, but the idea of selling what has been given to me for free (Life) just feels wrong for me. As pprimeau mentioned, if someone depended upon the income to get by, then I don’t see why it would be considered sinful.
 
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