ABSTRACT
It is widely known that the need for human organs for transplantation greatly exceeds the supply available. The state eliminated paying for organ transplants in favor of using that money to address the public health issue of prenatal care for economically disadvantaged women. The ability to transplant organs from dead persons (cadavers) to living human beings in order to extend life is truly a medical miracle. In the case of transplantation, feminist bioethicists observe that the healthiest organs used in adult transplantation often come from young people who have died as a result of accident, murder, or suicide. Organ transplantation may not be the best solution for everyone. In other words, death can be a person's best choice if, in his or her estimation, the quantity and/or quality of life an organ transplant purchases is simply not worth the attendant physical, psychological, material, and spiritual pain, suffering, hardships, and burdens.
