Persuasive Speech On Organ Trafficking

SPECIFIC PURPOSE

To persuade my audience that the crime of trading human organs must be banned.

INTRODUCTION

Pretend there is something you really want. Pretend it is something that you simply can’t live without. You’ll probably be picturing a mobile phone, an iPad, a car perhaps… something that you depend on in your daily lives, something that had become, along the years, an important part of you that you just can’t let go. Wang, a Chinese teenager isn’t that different; except for he is poor and couldn’t really afford a phone. Wang is only one example of those many unfortunate people in the world where life is hard and survival is an everyday challenge. He might want a phone; others might be begging for food, dreaming of going to

It is surely not a mobile phone, certainly not an iPad, and definitely not a car. The answer was more like a lung, a liver, a kidney maybe, or even a heart. Organ trafficking is a serious problem that requires immediate action. Through the several articles that I’ve read and analyzed as I was going through my research, as well as the fearful stories that I’ve heard and seen on the news, I’ve come to realize that organ trafficking is a huge crime that must be prohibited, simply everywhere.

PREVIEW STATEMENT

So, today, I’d like to show you the magnitude of such a problem, its causes, as well as suggest some practical and feasible solutions that will help solve the problem.

Signpost: First, let me show you the existence of such a problem by presenting for you some evidence.

BODY

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Make listeners aware of the problem.

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B. Present problem’s effects.

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C. Evidence of the existence of the problem.

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Signpost: Now, it’s time that we see the several causes that resulted in such effects.

II. Greediness, poverty, as well as the lack of participation of eligible organ donors resulted in illegal and unethical organ trafficking.

A. Greediness is pushing people to commit crimes by kidnaping children, women, as well as men, take different organs out of their bodies, to finally sell them for money.

1. According to medical daily.com, after going out for a drink one night, a man surprisingly found himself in a hotel room, lying in a bathtub full of ice, his hand attached to a medical drip and his back covered with surgical scars just to realize that his kidney was stolen, illegally and unethically, to be sold for an extremely high amount of money in the Black Market.

B. Poverty increases the cases of organ trafficking.

1. According to bbc.com, Mr. Alam was a poor man who sells rice and flour to