Article #4 My Sisters Keepr

Source Citation:
Picolt, Jodi. My Sisters Keeper. New York: Washington Square Press, 2004. Print.

When I picked my topic of Medical Emancipation I got a lot of questions from people asking did I pick this based on the book My Sisters Keeper. Even though this book has a lot to do with my topic that was not my sole reason for picking it. As I have been doing my research I realized that I had not used this great source.
For anybody who has not read the book or seen the movie (which I strongly recommend) My Sisters Keeper is a story about a girl who was created only to save her sisters life. Her sister had a type of cancer and one of the main reasons she continued to stay alive was because her sister was an exact match for everything she needed. Now her sister was in her early stages of becoming an adolescent and she finally came to a point where she wanted to have a say in what happened to her body. Even though she didn’t want her sister to die she wanted to be able to make the decision and not her parents (I think its more of a principle type thing.) Anyways she goes and finds a lawyer to help represent her in the suing of her parents to the rights to her body. Well you can read the rest of the story if it interest you since I do not want to give away too much of the book. I've realized that maybe medical emancipation isn’t for everyone, but in certain circumstances like this a child should not have to wait until they turn 18 to gain their rights. I think this may be the begging of my thesis. Hmmmm this could be an interesting point of view.