In the 2003 publication entitled “Financial Incentives for Organ Donation”, the foundation clearly lays out its views and opinions on the subject. They waste no time in expressing their position in the article which opens with the following statement: “The National Kidney Foundation opposes all efforts to legalize payments for human organs for use in transplants and urges the federal government to maintain the prohibition against purchasing organs that is codified in Title III of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984. (“Financial Incentives for Organ Donation.”) The Foundation believes that any compensation for organ donation, monetary or of another type, is not consistent with our values ​​to which we adhere as a society and which would serve to devalue the lives it would save. (“Financial incentives for organ donation.”) The article goes on to state that in addition to the moral and ethical questions this would raise, there would be some effect on socioeconomically disadvantaged people in the United States, and this in itself raises yet another conflict, as the foundation argues that “because economically disadvantaged people have been shown to be less likely to be candidates for organ transplantation, financial incentives for organ donation could be characterized as exploitative.” (“Financial incentives for organ donation.”) The National Kidney Foundation hammers on