My Sisters Keeper Pre Reading

            I have chosen to write about (a) what scientist have done to achieve in stem cell research/cloning, (b) how I feel about “creating humans”, and (c) how I would react and feel if I knew I was created for the betterment of another human being.

            Scientists are succeeding in cloning to create human embryonic stem cells. This is helping scientists get closer to being able to create a replacement tissue to treat diseases, but is also speeding up the time to when it will be possible to create clone babies.

            At the Oregon Health and Science University, they took skin cells from a baby with a genetic disease (a disease that can only be transmitted through genetics) and fused them with human eggs that created genetically identical human embryos. Then they extract the stem cells. That is a really hard job; to remove, fuse, and compare anything microscopic is horrifically complicated.

            I really don’t know how I feel towards people creating and cloning babies. I know that it could help some genetic diseases, but what do you think that “clone” would feel like once they knew they were made just for someone else’s life. That person might feel a little insecure about himself or herself. It’s like Anna on page 8 of My Sisters Keeper. She thought, and I quote “It made me wonder, though, what would have happened if Kate had been healthy. Chances are, I’d still be floating up in heaven or wherever, waiting to be attached to a body to spend some time on Earth. Certainly I would not be part of this family. See, unlike the rest of the free world, I didn’t get here by accident. And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it’s gone, so are you.” This shows how insignificant a person can feel if this happened.

            If I knew that I was created for someone else’s betterment (most likely a sibling) by giving them stem cells to help them live I would think like Anna but I would also kind of be proud of myself because it is me keeping someone else alive. Think about it, if you were chosen to make sure someone else stayed alive, you are the positive to they’re life. They’re sun, they’re light, they’re ticket to the world. It sounds like a privilege to me.

            Thank you for reading; I hope you really like the paper. To find out more, search up articles on stem cells. There is also a book about a family that has to deal with two sisters and the younger one must give stem cells to the other one to keep her alive from a disease called leukemia. That is cancer of the blood cells.

            So again thank you for reading and I hope you like my thoughts.