JUSTICE

According to the movie, I’ve realized to cherish every moment that you have in this
world because you never know what will happen the next day. The story my “My sister’s
keeper” is a story about Kate who suffered from Acute promyelocytic leukemia and her sister
Anna who helps her sister since she was a newborn to ease the pain of the cancer.

The conflict of the story starts when Anna files a complaint to decide what to do with
her body. She sues her parent because she thought that they are using her body as a helping
mechanism for her sister’s cancer. She want’s justice for her own body because it has been
used to help her sister since the day she was born to help her sister fight her cancer but that all
change when Anna complaint about her situation in the family at first their mother are furious
about Anna’s decision to sue them because she wants Anna to have offer one of her liver to her
sister so she can live longer but Anna don’t want to do this because she believe that she has her
own right to her body. Justice means giving each person what he or she deserves or, in more
traditional terms, giving each person his or her due. (Manuel Velasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas
Shanks, S.J., and Michael J. Meyer) In Anna’s situation she deserve own rights to her body and
decide whether she will give her kidney to her sister. As the story goes on her sister’s cancer are
getting worse and Anna are being questioned by her mother why he changed her mind in
helping her sister, It is then revealed by their brother that Anna only sue her parents because
Kate told her to do it. Kate wanted to die but her mother are not listening to her and accepts
that she is going to die that is why she used Anna to them so that her sister won’t need to
transplant her kidney anymore. The right to refuse treatment applies to those who cannot
make medical decisions for themselves, as well as to those who can (see VEN’s free handbook
Making Medical Decisions for Someone Else). In Kate’s situation she refuses to take the a
surgery so that her sister won’t to give her kidney, She accepts death and are ready for it.

The idea of justice occupies centre stage both in ethics, and in legal and political
philosophy. We apply it to individual actions, to laws, and to public policies. (Rawls, 1999) In
this movies Justice are applied to the both sister who fight for their rights to choose what they
think is right for them and their family
Reference:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/#Conc
https://vtethicsnetwork.org/medical-ethics/right-to-refuse-treatment
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/justice-and-fairness/