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This 3 page paper is an analysis and response to the book “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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with regard to the question, "How much should one person ask of another?" Discussion The plot revolves around the sisters Anna and Kate; Kate is three years older than Anna
and suffers from a virulent form of leukemia; Anna was conceived as a "donor" of blood, stem cells and ultimately a kidney for the older girl (Picoult, 2004). The main
questions here are whether or not it is ethical to have a child simply as a sort of source for spare parts for another child; and whether the child being
used this way should be allowed to stop the treatments. One reviewer asks if its ethical to deliberately select an embryo as a "tissue match for a terminally ill child"
and how the child who is the donor feel if he or she knew the only reason she was conceived was "for the sole purpose of saving his siblings life"
(Arie, 2004, p. BW05). Anna is tired of the endless visits to the hospital, the invasive procedures, the painful and agonizing bone marrow draws, blood draws and all the
other things that are done to her so that her sister will survive. Picoult makes the point very strongly that there is nothing wrong with Anna; her pain and suffering
- which are very real, given the type of procedures she undergoes as a donor - are all to help her sister, not to help her at all. There
are no easy answers here. The first reaction a reader might have is one of outrage that Annas parents would be so callous as to use her this way. There
is also the fact that Anna, as a person in her own right, is virtually invisible to them (Picoult, 2004). She exists only in her relationship to Kate. When she
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