"To Be or Not to Be My Sister's Keeper? A Revised Legal Framework Safeguarding Savior Siblings' Welfare" Rhetorical Precis

In "To Be or Not to Be My Sister's Keeper? A Revised Legal Framework Safeguarding Savior Siblings' Welfare" Amy Lai asserts that although My Sister's Keeper is fictionous the creation of savior siblings is a real phenomenon. Lai supports her claim by discussing the birth of Adam Nash, who was the first successful child with the use of a technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Lai then quotes Dr. Wagner about this case "the work done to combine pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to create a healthy cord blood donor holds great promise for those not only with Fanconi anemia, but also leukemia, thalassemia, Hurler syndrome and other dieseases that cause the immune system and bone marrow to fail." Lai has a strong opinion on this topic by brining up the legal issue that young children are incapable of making reasoned decisions and the proposal of regulations that prohibit young children to volunteer their tissue or organs despite their wishes. Lai keeps her readers in mind by connecting this legal issue back into the novel My Sister's Keeper whose climax involves the savior sibling filing a law suit against her parents.

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Lai, Amy. "To Be or Not to Be My Sisters' Keeper?". Journal of Legal Medicine 32, 3, pp. 261-293, CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.