Xenotransplantation is the process in which one transplants organs from one species to the other. This process was used many times throughout medical history to satisfy scientist hunger for the answer to new life. Many people died because of this hunger for new life. Xenotransplantation is an issue that touches upon the most ethical issues. When discussing the topic of using animals for spare parts, humans should be considerate of the animal race. How do we know this process really works?
Throughout the years, doctors have experimented by trying to add different organs of animals into humans to see how they performed. At the end of each Xenotransplantation they found out that this process only worked temporarily until a human organ could be found for the patient. How could you take a heart or liver out of an animal and put it in your own body?
This seems immoral to a lot of people. But this procedure has been preformed many times.
In other countries such as Belgium they passed the Presumed Consent Law. As stated in a presentation by Alan H. Berger of the Animal protection Institute of America. The Presumed Consent Law is a law where everyone is a potential organ donor, unless he or she has declared an opposite wish. If this was used in America the percentage of organs available would be great enough that Xenotransplantation would not even be an option when having to save ones life. Also people should feel relaxed and confident about donating their organs. Humans need to be aware of how many lives they can save. Humans also need to be aware of the amount of animals they could save.
The ways in which some of these experiments were performed would be undoubtedly disturbing to the majority of human ki
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