This book, My sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, had left me in my much contemplative self even after reading it for days. I picked it up on a whim during the bookfest, not expecting it to give me such a momentous impact as to repeatedly questing myself this: The sanctity of life vs The quality of life. In fact, I googled it right away after finish reading the book. Seems it is a perennial debate in medical field and this book has raised such an issue in a more humane way, not to mention that it is touchy to the max. I was moved in many parts of the novel. Do share with us how this book has touched you or how it has impacted you in any way. Now here are some questions that have been whirling in my mind and I reckon there are no right or wrong answers. What says you? In the event of involving in such a predicament ie you are having a baby with a critical medical situation that to prolong her life, you are given a choice to develop a IVF baby, which is mainly served as a genetic donor, will you resort to it? If you were a doctor and Anna, your 13-year-old patient, gives you her consent to be an organ donor or carry out medical ops to rescue her sister, will you proceed even if you are fully aware that the child is at a great risk of sacrificing her life, by degrees. Medically and ethically speaking, is it allowed? Do you agree with the court’s verdict – granting the medical emancipation to Anna from her parents? And how will your react as a parent since you have to literally watch your daughter die with another daughter, who was brought to this world with the very reason to survive her not helping? “Morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law”. Do moral and love prevail over ethics and law, legally speaking?

Discussion started by Licha , on 23 September 09:20 PM