My Sister's Keeper Persuasive Essay

Imagine being told you had to do something by your parents, and then they tell you that you need to give them an organ and you had to choice but to do what they say. In the novel, My Sister’s Keeper, Anna Fitzgerald is asked by her parents to donate a kidney in order to save her sister, Kate. This poses the question, When does it become acceptable to force someone to go through physical and emotional pain against their wishes to save someone else? The main Character, Anna, files a lawsuit against her parents for medical emancipation because she has been forced to be a donor to her sister, Kate. Anna’s parents would like her to donate a kidney even though she has expressed her wishes against being a donor.In the novel, My Sister’s Keeper, it

To start, when Anna was younger she was forced to donate blood so the doctors could give it to Kate. She was not a willing donor, she was forced by her parents to give blood, “It’s only a little stick”… Anna starts thrashing. Her arms clip me in the face, the belly. Brian cannot grab hold of her. Over her screams, he yells at me. “I thought you told her!” (107). Although it was only a small amount of pain she experienced, it was not going to benefit her in any way medically. Another reason Anna is hesitant to be a donor is that is could affect her in later life, “And that doesn’t even include the long term effects: an increased chance in high blood pressure, a risk of complications with pregnancy, a recommendation to refrain from activities where your lone remaining kidney might be damaged.(50)” Anna explains how she wouldn’t consider it a “safe” surgery, “Kidney donation is considered relatively safe surgery, but if you ask me, the writer must have been comparing it to something like a heart-lung transplant, or some brain tumor removal (50). She goes on a say that she considers a safe surgery to be like getting a wart removed or a cavity filled and then goes on to say, “then again, when you get a wart removed or a cavity drilled, the only person who benefits in the long run is your self” (50). It is clear that Anna has