Outside Reading #5

As I continued to read My Sister's Keeper, I kept being surprised. After learning that Kate had asked Anna to seek the medical emancipation, I thought that there couldn't be anymore surprises! But I was wrong, very, very wrong. As Anna keeps fighting in court, her case seems to be growing stronger and stronger- it appears that she may even win the case. At the same time, the judge was having a hard time deciding whether or not a teenager could make desicions about her medical care. I think if I were the judge, the choice would be really hard for me. If I chose to rule in favor of the parents, a young girl may still be used as a donor against her will because the mother wants so badly to keep her other daughter alive, which is very understandable, but very unethical. The other choice I would have is to rule in favor of the teenage girl, someone who doesn't necessarily know what her best interests are when it comes to medical care, but shoud have the right to decide if she wants to be used as a donor anymore.
I was actually surprised to find out that Anna won the case, she received her medical emancipation. But the part that really surprised me, and made me kind of mad was what happened on the wasy to the hospital immediately after signing the papers. The car that Anna was riding in was hit, Anna would be pronounced brain dead at the hospital. In the end, Kate did get her kidney. The thing that Kate said at the end was kind of interging, She said that she felt that becasue Anna had died, she was able to live. She felt that it was almost as if Anna had taken her spot. I think that for a teenage girl to think of that must be really hard, she would probably feel guilty about it for the rest of her life.