The movie "My Sister's Keeper" shows a perfect example of this. Anna was designed by her parents to help her sister Kate who has cancer. The idea of it is great, you have a child whom you love dearly and find out that he/she is sick and can die at any moment and needs transplants for blood or other organs. Creating a child who can help save your first child seems like such a great idea, you will have another child that you get to love and enjoy and at the same time you can help save the life of your first child. But how can this be a great thing if your in a sense harming one child for the sake of another. In the case of Anna and Kate, since Anna was born she was undergoing dangerous operations to help save the live of her sister. She was giving blood transfusions, organs, she had been hospitalized numerous times because of these operations. Her life was put in danger because her parents wanted to save their other daughter.
Is this the right thing to do? Design a child and treat them as if they are dispensable? It is unethical to o this to someone no matter the age. To force one child to give up organs to another just because it can save their life and that's what the child was designed for. This kind of thing can mentally and physically harm a child. They will start to feel like they don't matter to the parents,that they were only created to save their sibling and how they feel or what happens to them isn't going to matter. This child is going to grow up feeling worthless to the family. Not to mention the dangerous operations a child can undergo at a young age and not even have a say about it because they are not of a legal age to argue it. Designing a child to save another may seem like a great thing to do, but think about the harm and risks you can put this "designed baby" through. Is it really worth it?
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