"my sister's keeper"

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so for my new ap english class one of the books we could ave read for the summer reading list was “my sister’s keeper”… and i just want to know if its morally offensive to catholics. i think i read that one of the sisters was made by invitro fertilization.

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so for my new ap english class one of the books we could ave read for the summer reading list was “my sister’s keeper”… and i just want to know if its morally offensive to catholics. i think i read that one of the sisters was made by invitro fertilization.
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I haven’t read the book, but I know this much.

There is a girl (Kate) who, at the age of 2, is diagnosed with some illness; the parents decide to have another child (Anna) genetically engineered (via in invitro fertilization) to match the first child so that Anna can be a donor for Kate. Originally, only blood from the umbilical cord was needed, but as time goes on Anna is needed more and more to keep Kate alive.

The book (as far as I can tell) is about the problems that arise from this process, because Anna is her own person, not simply the property of her parents or the organ-factory of her sister. Anna goes to seek legal counsel so that she isn’t treated as such.

The book might contain subject matter that Catholics take offense to, but I don’t think the book itself is offensive; that is, I don’t think the book glorifies IVF or organ-factories, etc.
 
It’s been about a year since I’ve read it, but off-hand, I can think of nothing that could even potentially be considered morally offensive in the book.
 
For me too, It has been a while since I have read this book. I thought the book was very thought provoking. I did not find it to be morally right, wrong or indifferent or offensive.

I think the message of this book was not the moral issue of IVF, but rather the moral issue of having a child for the sole purpose of having a perpetual donor for the child that is sick and how far does one use the donor child? What are the consequences of such?

I thought it was a very good story, and I would recommend other books by Picoult.
 
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