"Respect for Life" Ronald Dworkin

“Respect for Life”

Taking the responsibility of becoming a parent comes with many emotionally and morally challenging decisions of right and wrong. Mr. and Mrs. Ayala have been faced with one of the toughest moral dilemma's that parents could be confronted with. Their only daughter who is twenty has recently been diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer known as leukemia. The chances of recovery are extremely slim without a rare bone marrow transplantation from a close blood match. The problem linked to this process is that the blood needs to come from a sibling, which Anissa does not have. The Ayala's have considered having another child in order to give Anissa the best chances of survival. The parents know that the best chance for her survival is to have another child which may possibly possess the matching bone marrow. Since their only daughter has lived a healthy, loving and wonderful twenty years along side them, they want to do whatever possible to save her. They know she deserves the right to live life, love, and achieve all the goals that a young lady could desire. The “respect for life” is obviously strong with these parents since they are willing to do anything in their power to save their precious only daughter. They know for a fact that their daughter should have a long life ahead of her with a lot of potential. The author of “Life's Dominions,” Robert Dworkin best describes the frustrating dilemma on hand: “If you believe that the natural investment in a human life is transcendently important, that the gift of life itself is infinitely more significant than anything the person whose life it is may do for himself, important though that may be, you will also believe that a deliberate, premature death is the greatest frustration of life possible, no matter how limited or cramped or unsuccessful the continued life may be. Clearly, the moral dilemma they are faced with is whether or not they should conceive another child solely for the