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To Case Study – My Sister’s Keeper Read the novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, or you may watch the movie instead if you prefer. Answer each question fully that explains your reaction to the novel or video. 1. To what extent are family members morally obligated to ensure each other’s well-being? What are the limits of these obligations? (Be sure to answer both questions for full credit.) I believe that family members are always morally obligated to ensure the well-being of others. It comes down to the fact that they are your family at any point if you ever think that you wouldn’t help your family with something that is dire to their health then are you really family. I do believe that there are no limitations to these obligations either, like I said they are your family and you are supposed to support and live your family through thick and thin. 2. Discuss whether or not you think it is ethical for the doctor to suggest genetic engineering for the purpose of donating. When reading the novel and the circumstances that Kate and her family were in, I do think it was ethical to suggest genetic engineering to the family. With the suggestion from the doctor it is then up to the family to consider whether it is right for them or not. Doctors look at what will best benefit the family. While some may think that it is wrong to have a child just for the purpose of helping another one, a parent will not love their child less. 3. Discuss whether or not you think it is ethical for the couple to conceive a child for the purpose of saving another child’s life. When the novel first started, I realized the background story of what was happening in that family’s life, I didn’t think it was ethical for the parents to conceive a child for the purpose of saving another. Yet, as the story went on you began to realize that Anna wasn’t upset that she was born only to help her sister, because Anna would have kept helping her sister. The reality in it was that Kate wanted to die and be gone from all the pain she was having. So, looking back at the novel and the situation I think it was ethical for the family to conceive Anna to help Kate. 4. Discuss whether or not you think Sara’s and Brian’s choice to conceive Anna to be a genetic match for Kate is morally justified. Whether or not it was morally justified is based on your opinion of the situation. It comes down to what you think is right and wrong about this situation. I believe that it is morally justified, even though Anna was indeed conceived only to care for Kate, her parents loved her just as much. If you look back at what the genetics where that were needed to do for Anna to be a match, they just looked at the genes, the parents weren’t selecting an eye color or skin color, they just wanted what was best for Kate. 5. Brian and Sara’s decision to use preimplantation genetic diagnosis allowed doctors to test their embryos for genetic diseases in order to identify the embryo that is healthy and best genetic match for Kate. Answer the following questions: a. Discuss the parents’ choice to conceive Anna through preimplantation genetic diagnosis in order to be a donor for Kate

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