Organs 1AC
Inherency
The property status of organs is legally confusing in the status quo—everyone gets
property benefits from organ transplants but donors do not
J. Randall Boyer 12, JD-BYU, Gifts of the Heart ... and Other Tissues: Legalizing the
Sale of Human Organs and Tissues, 2012 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 313
B. The Legal Status of Human Body Parts¶ ¶ The jurisprudence
underpinning the
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laws overriding an individual's choice regarding what to do with her own organs.
SCOTUS recent decision in Myriad creates uncertainty over property rights over
the body - applying property rights to organs is key
Osagie K. Obasogie 13, Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings,
Senior Fellow with the Center for Genetics and Society “Your Body, Their Property”,
September 30, 2013, http://www.bostonreview.net/us/obasogie-gene-patent-myriadmoore
Fast-forward a few decades and almost
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one-fourth of all human genes
v. Regents of the University of California is next
in their crosshairs.
Plan
Plan: The United States should increase restrictions on bioprospecting by
recognizing individual property rights over human organs and tissue.
Solvency
Recognition solves – closes the legal loopholes and boosts innovation
Kateryna Yason 4, associate at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, The
Commercialization of Human Organs, April, 2004,
http://apps.osgoode.yorku.ca/Quickplace/albertosalazar/Main.nsf/0/E1A41BB32F05D
FA485256FA100612A83/$file/Commercializ-Organs-Law%26EconPaperKJason2004.doc.
Secondly, social benefits will also accrue in the realm of the legal system.
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allow the society reap those benefits without the prolonged and costly courtroom battles.
Organ Sales
The organ shortage is massive and will only get worse---population growth and
current trends prove annual deaths will continue to increase
T. Randolph Beard 13, Professor of Economics at Auburn, David L. Kaserman,
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics at Auburn,
and Rigmar Osterkamp, Professor of Applied Sciences at Munich, “The Global Organ
Shortage: Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses”, Stanford
University Press, pp. 75-78
Future Prospects for the Global Organ Shortage¶ If our current predicament looks bad now
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S . example, and shortages and their associated pathologies are now widespread.
Plan resolves shortages---it’s necessary because alternatives like tech/reforms are
insufficient
T. Randolph Beard 13, Professor of Economics at Auburn, David L. Kaserman,
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics at Auburn,
and Rigmar Osterkamp, Professor of Applied Sciences at Munich, “The Global Organ
Shortage: Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses”, Stanford
University Press, pp. 15-18
The organ transplantation policies adopted by the vast majority of the world’s nations have failed
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economics will be our primary tool, and for that we cannot apologize.
Independently, organ demand is pushing xenotransplantation research---plan
prevents it
A Ríos 14, MD, International Collaborative Donor Project-Spain, Regional Transplant
Center, Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine University of Murcia, Department of
Psychology UCAM, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, López-Navas A, Martínez-Alarcón L,
Sánchez J, Ramis G, Ramírez P, Parrilla P. A study of the attitude of Latin-American
residents in Spain toward organ xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation 2014: 21:
149–161
Xenotransplantation has progressed in the last decade of the 20th century due to the extraordinary
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they have been on the waiting list for a considerable time [22].
Xenotransplantation causes unforeseen disease outbreaks
Alix Fano 2k, M.A., Murry J. Cohen, M.D., Marjorie Cramer, M.D., F.A.C.S., Ray
Greek, M.D., Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D., MAs and MDs doing a lit review of
Xenotransplantation, “Executive Summary, Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues, A
Layperson's Guide to the Problems With Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants”,
http://www.mrmcmed.org/pigs.html
4. We Should Learn From the Past¶
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Responsible public health authorities would steer
consequences of which could be disastrous in the face of a xenogeneic infection.
Disease outbreaks cause extinction
Prof. Fritz H. Bach 1, Lewis Thomas Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director
of the Immunobiology Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr.
Adrian J. Ivinson, Former Editor of Nature Medicine and former Publisher of the Nature
monthly journals and H.E. Judge Christopher Weeramantry, Former Vice President and
presently Judge Ad Hoc of the International Court of Justice, “Ethical and Legal Issues
in Technology: Xenotransplantation”, American Journal of Law & Medicine
a pig virus might infect the human recipient
One potential risks of xenotransplantation is that
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may be available as soon as, or almost so, as xenotransplantation.
Biotech
Ag biotech collapsing now – aff is key to maintain it
Norman Borlaug 5, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Distinguished Professor of Science
at Texas A&M, and Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and former President of the
United States of America, 9/14/ “Food for Thought,” Wall Street Journal,
http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/borlaug/WSJ-2005-Foodthought.html
The past 50 years have been the most productive period in global agricultural history,
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-- of millions of innocents who could have been spared such a tragedy.
Medical biotech is key to ag innovation—RNAi research spills over
Adrianne Massey 13, PhD, is the Managing Director of Science and Regulatory Affairs
in the Food and Ag Section of BIO, “RNAi: From Medicine to Agriculture,” Oct 24,
http://www.biotech-now.org/food-and-agriculture/2013/10/rnai-from-medicine-toagriculture#
At BIO, our member companies
are involved in the research and development of innovative
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to develop novel and sustainable methods to improve crop quality and increase productivity.
Food shortages cause nuclear world war 3
FDI 12, Future Directions International, a Research institute providing strategic
analysis of Australia’s global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery, PhD in Agricultural
Science and former Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Land and
Environment, “Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers & Potential
Conflict Points,” http://www.futuredirections.org.au/workshop-papers/537international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-andwater-insecurity.html
There is a growing appreciation that the conflicts in the next century will most likely
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identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war .
Participation in research is low now bc of lack of trust- property rights over the
body are key
Jeremy Gruber 11, JD, is President and Executive Director of the Council for
Responsible Genetics, MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE HOLDS HEARING ON
GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS, may 6,
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageI
d=342
As genetic research and commercial genetics applications have proliferated, narrow ethical precepts
governing human
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addressing the social and ethical implications of new technologies and biotechnologies in
particular .