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My sister's keeper
My Sister’s Keeper

In the movie that we watch called my “Sister’s Keeper” we are introduced to a family who have two children and both very young age, when the little girl is diagnose with a type of cancer. In beginning stages it is clear to the family that they have to do everything that they can to save the little girl, but when all the test show that the family members cannot donate what is needed by the little girl to save her life; They are introduced to the idea to create a child that would be a perfect match to the girl and would be able to donate any organs or tissue that the little girl would need. At first the idea seems to perfect, too good to be true and they decide to do it. As the years go on the little girl needs more and more from her sister and does not seem to stay in remission very long. When we reach the point when the girl needs a kidney from her little sister and they seem to have had enough. The little sister decides to take her life and all her medical decisions into her own hands. As the show progresses and we are nearing the older sister getting sicker and sicker without a kidney transplant, the truth about the little sister taking the parents to court for the right to her medical decisions become clear that it was the older sister who just didn’t want to fight anymore that was putting her little sister up to it. It turns out that no one was ever listening and the older sister did not want to fight anymore. She was tried and ready to let go of her life.
Many people like to argue that what these parents are doing ethically wrong, when you are only thinking of the little sister it is easy to see how many people would disagree with they are doing. They created a child in a lab for the pure purpose of harvesting what you needed to allow the other child to survive. This child prime purpose in life was to be a garden for them to pick and take what they need. At the age that the girl was she had no say in any matter, what she wanted how

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