31. The Incarcerated Are Too Vulnerable to Consent

In this article, Lawrence O. Gostin argues that allowing prisoners to donate organs is unethical. He claims that even though there would be no change in the prisoners sentence, the prisoners would nonetheless be compelled to donate. This indirect coercion, Gostin argues, is unfair.

The article is centered around answering Gostin's rhetorical question "At first glance, why wouldn't society want to allow prisoners to voluntarily donate organs?" He then proceeds to use some ethos (when he says that he knows what the prisoners' life are like before he visited several prisons) and mostly logos. Though he takes a definitive stance on the subject, he has a cool tone.