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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

To-be kidney donor thinks buying, selling organs should be legal

KGO ABC 7 News | Carolyn Tyler

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you needed an organ to survive, would you be willing to pay for it? Say, $50,000 for a kidney? Or would you be willing to sell your kidney to someone else? That's one man's provocative suggestion.

This week, Alexander Berger will donate one of his kidneys to a stranger. He'll help save a life, but the 21-year-old knows everyone is not as altruistic as he is, so in a New York Times op-ed printed Tuesday, he suggested selling kidneys should be made legal.

"I recognize the worry but I think the benefits are reallly, really large," Berger said. "If we let people do it for nothing, I don't see why they can't do it for money."

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