Critical Thinking Paper Sisters Keeper

Nikki was a slim and athletic college graduate. However, once she was diagnosed with lupus , she lost her job and health insurance. One day, Nikki collapsed at her home in Tennessee and was rushed to a hospital emergency room, which was required to treat her without payment until her condition stabilized. Unfortunately, she passed away a few months later. We now have a chance to reform this healthcare system. If we let that chance slip away, there will be another Nikki dying every half-hour.

After declaring Jahi McMath brain dead, the doctors at the Children’s Hospital ordered her to be taken off mechanical ventilation. Her mother, Latasha Winkfield, refused to accept that her daughter was dead and incapable of recovering (du Toit & Miller, 2016). Winkfield believed her daughter was still alive because McMath was breathing and her heart was still beating (du Toit & Miller, 2016). McMath’s family disagreed with the doctors’ report and filed a lawsuit to prevent life support from being discontinued (Paola, 2014).

Anna and Kate have came up with a bunch of reasons as to why Anna wants to be emancipated. At the age of eleven, Anna and her older brother, Jesse, go hire a lawyer to sue their parents for the rights to Anna’s body. The lawyer takes the case because he knows what it is like to live a life where you have no control of your body. The lawyer suffers from epilepsy. Anna wants to become a medically emancipated minor. The courts had never heard of such a case and there is no such term as medically emancipated, legally defined. With Anna becoming medically emancipated, it means that Sara and Brian’s parental rights have been terminated within limits. They still had to provide shelter, food, clothing, and other basics, but they could not tell her what to do medically.

The doctors clear the family to take Lia home and be with her during her last days. Although Lia’s family devoted themselves to making Lia as comfortable as possible, and keeping her alive for decades longer than the doctors expected, her parents blame Lia's doctors for their daughter's prognosis.

In Taylor’s case, a few things could have been done differently. One of the doctors who cared for Taylor really wanted her parents to choose to keep fighting but was very cold towards them and they would have been more ready to hear her side if she hadn’t treated them the way she did. Between pages 94 and 95 of First, Do No Harm, the parents try discussing at what point they should think about turning the respirator off to which she replied, “…Under Texas law there are requirements for removal of life support, and they don’t apply here.” If her parent’s chose to keep her on support, I presume Taylor would have passed all the same but it would have taken a lot longer and kept her parents in their estranged state until so.

In the article “Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of “Embryo Design,” is an article about a married couple, name Larry and June Shannon. They have a daughter, four years old, name Sally, who is diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia. Therefore, the Shannons are getting help from a research team, to find the perfect bone marrow transplant for Sally. The Shannon couple is also interested in having another child and they are aware of the risks and odds of success. However, a PGD process has to be performed and the couple must undergo an IVF procedure more than once, before the implantation is successful, to be able to produce a healthy full-term baby.

This Rights model, more specifically Ashley’s human rights is very present in the article. It could be argued that she doesn’t need or require the treatment to medically improve her life. The Equal and Human Rights Commission (2008) suggest that human rights are the freedoms that we are all entitled to as a result of our shared humanity. I understand that she is unable to speak and is unlikely to have the mental capacity to make that decision but does that automatically transfer that decision to her parents? The United Nations Convention on the Rights for a Child (1989) plays an important part of the Rights model for this text as I feel it both supports and opposes the parent’s actions. Article 23 concentrates on children’s disability by stating that ‘Children who have any kind of disability have the right to special care and support, as well as all the rights in the Convention, so that they can live full and independent lives.’ This could support Ashley’s parent’s’ motives. However, Article 3 states ‘The best interests of children must be the primary concern in making decisions that may affect them. All adults should do what is best for children. When adults make decisions, they should think about how their decisions will affect children.’ In this case are the parents doing what’s best for Ashley or themselves? This is a good example where the Rights model can get itself in a twist!

From the time Anna was born, whenever Kate fell ill and needed a donor, Kate and Anna’s parents did not hesitate to use Anna’s body without asking her. Parents should not harm one child to save another. Anna decides to go to a lawyer and sue her parents for the rights of her own body. The lawyer makes an ethical decision to be a

The advancement of medical technology has made it possible to detect medical abnormalities while a child is still a fetus and can create difficult choices for parents to make if severe anomalies are discovered. There are many theories regarding the moral status of the fetus that can be applied when deciding how to proceed if these abnormalities are detected. In the fetal abnormality case study, Jessica, Marco, Maria, and Dr. Wilson each have varying opinions on what course of action to take based on these different theories of moral status.

A third reason might be that the mother might already have as many kids as she wants, but she does not want a time in her life where she can not help all them and have to give them to social service to put up for adoption so she believes it would be better not to have the child. Wanting to keep a baby alive that has so many problems that it would have a completely painful life an uncomfortable life is a bad choice.

The hospital should have gone about the situation in a different way. The hospital could have been more supportive of what the parents wanted to have for their child. Also when the parents made the choice they shouldn’t have tried to bully the parents into making the choice the hospital wanted. When Dr. Garcia and Landon’s father, Ian, met to make the final decision they started weighing the

If you were faced with the situation that for everyone of your three newborn children that one person must give up their life, what would you do? In the story 2BR02B writen by Kurt Vonnegut, everything was swell in their world. Death by old age and diseases were problems that were fixed too. Despite this, every time a child was born, a person must volunteer to die. Wehling’s wife just had triplets, meaning three people must die. His grandpa already volunteered, but in the end Wehling ends up killing the hospital’s chief obstetrician Dr. Hitz, a woman in the service named Leora Duncan, and himself. As stated earlier, he did this so all of his kids could survive. The theme of this text would be that family is one of the most important aspects

Without straddling the fence and having to choose, I support the mother’s decision to withdraw all care for the young child. One reason why I support the mother’s decision to withdraw all care, because the child is practically dead since the machines are caring out majority of the body functions for the child. At this point it is in the best interest for everyone to end all suffering and troubles. In my eyes they are very much standing by the side of their dead child already. Emotionally speaking watching a lifeless child on the daily basis is far more stressful to someone emotions .Visiting their child at the hospital is equivalent to visiting their child at a cemetery because their child is not responsive. From an economic standpoint allowing

Another equally strong point that the author makes in the article is when she appeals to emotions in the first paragraph. “Little Charlotte lay on a high white bed, surrounded by nurses and doctors pushing drugs into her veins, tubes into her trachea and needles into her heart, trying as hard as they could to take over for her failing body and brain.” (Mitchell, 2000, pg. 503). When reading this article for the first time not only is it very clear which side of the argument Mitchell takes but she effectively changed my point of view on the subject just with the appeal to emotion made. Later in the first paragraph she also mentions that it happened multiple times before the child passed. Could you imagine how it must have felt for the child?

1. Doctors could possibly save your child from future pain, but only if this procedure becomes ethical and moral.