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Persuasive Essay On Donating Children

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Having a child can be one of the most exciting experiences for a parent. However, bringing a child into the world can also be a very scary experience. Every parent’s wish is to have a healthy baby, but sadly this is not always a reality. When a child is born with a disease the whole dynamic of a family changes, doctor visits and medication become the new norm. Sometimes families are even faced with the difficult decision of life or death for their child, which can only be cured by using donations from a close match. Depending on the person, the likelihood of finding your perfect match from the donor list can be slim. With that having been said, many parents turn to the decision of conceiving another child to be the donor for their already living …show more content…

There are many people who are opposed to conceiving a child to be used as a donor, so it is important we acknowledge their oppositions. There are three main points against the conception of children for the use of stem cell donations. The first is explained by Elaine R. Morgan, from an article titled Having a child to save a sibling, “the emotional endangerment of the child because of the motivation for its conception.” (Morgan, ET.AL, 1). Morgan brings up a very valid point, often-times the child who is donating begins donations from birth. As a very young donor, the child may not fully understand the procedures. It is also a very heavy concept to weigh on a child, that their sibling could die without their help. Jennifer P. D’Auria adds to Morgans findings on emotional endangerment of a child, in an article titled Through the eyes of young sibling donors, she described children remembering “immense pressure and emotions they felt to be that perfect match”. Although it can be extremely taxing on a child to have life or death weighing on them, D’Auria assessed 44 children and majority felt there was no question in whether or not they wanted to step up to save their sibling, “To me there was no choice. It was you can either have a brother or you cannot have a brother. That was my choice”. Morgan and D’Auria can both agree that there are emotional risks when going through a procedure like this, there is no guarantee that it will work so if it didn’t the child may certainly be emotionally unstable. But what D’Auria explains through the research with many patients, is that the child willingly wants to help their sibling, they would do anything for them. Every medical procedure has risks and as medical technology continues to advance, the risk of procedures has been decreasing. When Morgan claims that children

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