What’s Wrong with Selling Organs (and a Taxonomy of Taboo Trade/Commodification Objections)
By I. Glenn Cohen Many people – non-philosophers especially, but some philosophers as well – loosely use the term “commodification” as an objection to a “taboo trade”. By “taboo trade” I mean the sale of a good or service such as an organ, sperm, egg, surrogacy, prostitution, etc. This is unhelpful since it means that…