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Ethical Issues In My Sister's Keeper

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in the story my sister's keeper by jodi picoult the characters that are in the story are faced with many ethical issues. in the story anna was made to be a genitalic made baby that would be able to donate all of her organs and anything that her sister kait would need to survive the cancer issue. all of this will lead up to many issues with the family with how they treat anna and it will not end well for the family. in the story anna was the child that was genetically made to help her sister kate. kate had a type of cancer that she needed help to get all of the organs that she needed and anna did not want to help kate for most of the time. anna was getting tired of e;ping kate and going through all of the pain. anna said “ i was born for a

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