More Babies Being Born To Be Donors Of Tissue Analysis

A well-known reporter and writer, Gina Kolata, in her article, More Babies being Born to Be Donors of Tissue, addresses the ethics of conceiving donor babies. Kolata’s purpose is to enlighten the reader on the debate of whether conceiving donor babies is ethical. She uses all three ethos, pathos, and logos, in order to inform the reader that there are many sides of the debate.
Kolata uses her knowledge of medicine to explain the procedures that would be done so that the reader can understand. She has a masters degree in molecular biology and has training in science from M.I.T and is a reporter for the New York Times. She also uses many doctors to give their opinion on the argument. The doctor’s opinion is from both sides of the debate. She also uses the opinions of ethicists who also stand on both sides. Kolata states very clear and objective on the argument. She does not hint on to where she stands but gives the reader enough information so that they can pick a side.

One statistic she uses is that “we found at least 40 children had been conceived for the purpose of bone marrow donation in the past 5 years. (p.2).” This claim basically states that within 5 years 40 children that were conceived was with the purpose of bone marrow donation. Kolata also uses a survey done by Dr. Caplan about families stores who have concaved a child for some sort of donation or transplant. One story is a child had a rare disease so the parents conceived another child for bone marrow and the child conceived tuned out to have the same rare disease. One family involved divorced parents and the wife remarried and the child from the first marriage needed a bone marrow transplant so the wife got inseminated with her ex-husband semen to conceive a child. There are many crazier stories regarding conceiving a child for a donation or transplant. Throughout the whole time, Kolata stays objective not showing her side of the