Research Paper Stem Cell Research

Bringing a baby into this world is one of God’s greatest creations. Babies should be born out of love from their mother and father. That is why so many people are against embryonic stem cell research, designer babies, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. These procedures go along with the concept of the novel and of how Anna was conceived by in vitro fertilization. They go against the catholic religion due to the fact that creating a baby in a petri dish defeats the whole purpose of natural conception. Throughout the novel, we discover how Anna Fitzgerald truly feels about having been engineered for the sole purpose of keeping her sister alive. Being parents of a baby, they are there to cherish and nurture them starting from its birth. In Anna Fitzgerald’s case, she was born only to save her sister who was diagnosed with acute promeyelocytic leukemia when she was two years old. “I’m an allogeneic donor- a perfect sibling match” (Picoult 10). Anna was not conceived as how almost every person is, but most importantly, not how God would have wanted her to be conceived. “I was born because a scientist managed to hook up my mother’s eggs and my father’s sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material”(Picoult 8). This is called Pre-Implantation genetic diagnosis. “Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was introduced at the beginning of the 1990s as an alternative to prenatal diagnosis, to prevent termination of pregnancy in couples with a high risk for offspring affected by a sex-linked genetic disease.” (Sermon). This was the purpose of Anna being born, to save her sister’s life by donating her bodily fluids to her.
Anna’s first donation to Kate was her umbilical cord, which was taken right at the moment of Anna’s birth. “ I struggle to my elbows to watch what is going on below. “ The umbilical cord,” I remind