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    To conceive a child by IVF in order to meet specific genetic requirements is unethical unless its purpose is to save a life. There is a moral difference between selecting for socially desirable traits like blue eyes and blonde hair‚ and selecting for medically desirable ones. Anna was genetically engineered as a perfect donor match for her older sister Kate in order to save Kate’s life threating disease; leukemia. Anna decides to take legal action to be in control of her body. Where is the line

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    Evelyn Rivas West Coast University 9 May 2013 My Sister’s Keeper Cloning is a controversial topic to where most people who argue about it‚ definitely do not agree with each other’s opinions. “My Sister’s Keeper” is a movie where one child‚ Anna‚ is conceived solely so her older sister Kate can fight leukemia. Once Anna reaches a certain age‚ she realizes what has been happening to her and refuses to go through with anything else by suing her mother. Throughout the movie‚

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    My Sister’s Keeper The movie “My Sister’s Keeper” revolves around Kate and her immediate family. Kate is critically ill with Leukemia. The other main character is Anna‚ Kate’s younger sister‚ who in the movie battles with her parents for medical emancipation. In the movie‚ it touches on all her family members personal struggles with Kate’s illness‚ and the effects it has on their family. This movie shows some medical aspects for Kate as she battles her cancer‚ and Anna who is Kate’s donor

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    In My Sisters Keeper‚ Cassavetes brings up issues of being able to speak up and knowing when someone is taking something to a point where you are in danger. What are the boundaries when it comes to saving someone’s life? Would you be willing to put your life at risk for someone else. The strength of Anna and Kate’s relationship amazed me in this film. Anna had given Kate her organs many times (bone marrow and blood) and never complained but did she really know who she was all she knew is why she

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    My Sister’s Keeper In the movie “My sister’s Keeper” Ana Fitzgerald‚ who is an engineered baby‚ is currently functioning at Erik Erikson’s “identity versus identity confusion” stage. All her life she has been used by her parents as a donor for her dying sister‚ Kate‚ who is a suffering leukemia patient. Ana is finally at the point where she is evidentially trying to find her identity because she wants to claim the rights to her own body. She is now old enough to realize that being a donor can

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    An Ethical Discussion of My Sister’s Keeper Trudy German Wayland Baptist University An Ethical Discussion of My Sister’s Keeper Introduction and Thesis: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) to provide a genetically matched donor for an older sick child and to use the organs of the younger to the medical benefit of the elder is not morally justifiable using rule utilitarian ethical theory. This principle is not justifiable due to both the nature of the proposed rule regarding PGD and‚ primarily

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    My Sister’s Keeper My Sister’s Keeper is a movie about a young girl named Anna (Abigail Breslin) whose life was brought to be for a very important purpose. She was born into a loving family with two adoring parents that made the decision to have another child in the hopes of saving the life of older their daughter that has leukemia. Throughout the entire movie the family and therefore the audience is presented with love‚ laughter and many emotional moral issues. Just like in real life there are

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    My Sisters Keeper Analysis

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    In both the novella and film of “My Sister’s Keeper” similar notions and central ideas are conveyed in comparable ways. The plot is both similar and different in ways and the approaches the characters are presented in are conveyed in remaining the same in both texts. Although a different crisis is communicated at the end of the film‚ which changes many of the characters viewpoints. Nick Cassavetes made the film to show a lot more emotion and to focus on each individual character and their thoughts

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    In the movie‚ My Sisters Keeper‚ Mother Sara and Father Brian Fitzgerald have just been informed that their young daughter Kate is diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia. When she finds out her son Jesse is not a genetic match for Kate‚ Sara willing to try anything to save her daughter Kate decides to conceive a child with the same genetic match of Kate in order to use the umbilical cord tissue from the birth to help treat her cancer. As years go on‚ the doctors must take many things including

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    be offered the "right to die"? This is one of the questions invovled in My Sister’s Keeper. Anna‚ who’s sister Kate is about to die‚ files a law suit against her mom because she forced her to make medical decisions that were not her own. Anna is supportive with her sister’s condition and has given all she can to help Kate’s recovery from leukemia. (Yet the discovery of the purpose of her filing this lawsuit is because her sister Kate wants to die.) Anna claims that her parents push for her to donate

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