My Sister's Keeper

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Which of you has a right to live?
Imagine at birth you are given a second you, a “twin” per se. But instead of the doctors and scientists calling it your twin, it is called your clone. Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. The purpose of that clone is to be there for spare parts to its original. Essentially, it is simply there for you to harvest its’ organs, blood, bone marrow, and other necessities because they are a guaranteed genetic match and you need it. If this clone is an exact living copy of you, and you are a living human being with the right to your own life, why doesn’t your copy have the same rights to their body and life as well? Say you get in a car accident and your kidney is failing. Meanwhile, …show more content…

In the novel Anna the main character by age thirteen, has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that Kate, her older sister, can fight the leukemia by using what was taken from Anna. In the book you find out that Anna was genetically altered as an embryo to be Kate's perfect match for anything she needed. But Anna ends up refusing any more medical procedures for Kate, taking her parents to court because her life matters too. Although this character was not a clone per se she was still used as one would be. Someone may say that this has nothing to do with the subject matter. That if “Kate” had a clone she would have never had to use “Anna’s” body parts. She would have her own set of fixtures in her double. That this in a real life situation would help tremendously so you don't need to find a donor because you have copies of what you need right …show more content…

What if it is you who is the clone, wouldn't you want the right to live? The right to grow old and have children to truly live. That is what every person roaming the earth has a right to. Imposing another's health issues and obligations on you would be inhumane. If you are told that your original needs your heart, that's is you no longer get to live like everyone else. Maybe your clone needs new lungs because they smoked and ruined there's. Now you have to give up your life due to someone not taking care of their body. By putting the shoe on the other foot people would see how cruel and unfair a life of a clone would be. The possibility of the clone and original both claiming to be one or the other may come up leaving someone to choose which one of you gets to live and who gets to die. Therefore, I so no reason the idea of human cloning would ever be allowed let alone

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