My Sister's Keeper: Moral or Immoral?

By: Sailor Davis

Right or Wrong
Is it morally correct to conceive a
child whose sole purpose is to help
cure their brother or sister?
Does that child get a say in what she
donates, or if she wants to donate
anything at all?

Examples
Mr. and Mrs. Day
Lisa and Jack Nash

Martha and Robert

Martha and Robert

Martha and Robert, a young couple, are both 26 years old. Both of them are
also extremely short, Robert at 5 1 and Martha at 4 7
They both know first-hand that being short has its disadvantages, especially
when it comes to sports and being ridiculed by your peers at an early age
They plan to try PGD to ensure that their offspring have a high probability of
being tall.

Lisa and Jack Nash

The couple's daughter, 6 year old Molly Nash, was born with Fanconi's
anaemia
Only two of 15 embryos were perfect tissue matches and free of the disease,
and only one survived the implant procedure.
The resultant child, Adam, was born on 29 August, and he will be her blood
donor, and whatever else Molly needs.

Mr. and Mrs. Day

Since college, both have been immersed in the deaf community and socialize
primarily with others who are deaf
Mr. and Mrs. Day are interested in preimplantation diagnosis to ensure that
their future children are deaf.
Their conclusion was that having a hearing child would inexorably alter their
way of life and they fear that this child would eventually become estranged
from them.

My Sisters Keeper
In 1990, doctors diagnosed Saras two-year-old daughter, Kate, with a rare
and aggressive form of leukemia.
scientists help them conceive another daughter, Anna, who is a perfect
genetic match for Kate.
Over the course of the next few years, Anna undergoes several procedures,
including frequent blood withdrawals and a painful bone marrow extraction,
to help keep Kate alive.

Was Anna in the right?

Thirteen-year-old Anna goes to see a lawyer named Campbell Alexander and
asks him to represent her.
Anna tells Campbell that she wants to sue her parents for medical
emancipation. Kate, her sister, is in the end stages of kidney failure, and
Anna wants to file the lawsuit so she will not have to donate a kidney to
Kate.
Judge DeSalvo decides to grant Anna medical emancipation and gives
Campbell medical power of attorney over her.