I love how Anna was willing to sacrifice herself for Kate, but once Kate tells her to stop, Anna realises that she's more than just spare parts for Kate.
@nikki2jessica It's often easier for people to accept the possibility of their own death than their child's. Especially if their entire life has been one of illness and pain. I'm not saying these parents were right to use Anna the way they did, but they were desperately trying to hold on to their older daughter. Also, it was mostly just the mother who kept pushing for the donation; the father was more on Anna's side.
@@harringt100in the end it comes to Mates heath was a priority over Anna’s because her mother never saw her as a daughter but a donor. She never connected emotionally with her and never understood her because she had to be detached from the healthy child she gave birth to suffer and have her health put at risk for another who is already a lost cause. At least her father and brother love her because the mother is a psycho.
As beautiful as this movie is, I feel like it doesn't do a good enough job expressing how evil and psychotic this is. The mom is portrayed as just being misguided, when in reality she is abusive and disgusting.
I think it was a good premise, but it was a total copout to have the sister be suicidal. The court case did not even matter. The family ends up all happy together. What a waste of the first 90% of the story.
Their mother is absolutely horrible. To both of them. She's so selfish she makes her dying daughter comfort her while using her other daughter as an organ donor.
@Aleshia Torres I wouldn't be so quick to judge her as that. She is a loving mother. She doesn't want to lose her child. They didn't get a second child so that child could donate organs. They wanted to get a second child anyway someday and the doctor said that cells from the umbilical cord could really help Kate. That's a procedure that wouldn't harm Anna at all. That was the plan. But then those cells don't help that much. And the doctors told them that Anna is a match for other donations. The mother didn't make those decisions easily. But it's a very normal and logical decision to make. What mother would watch her child die? The mother loves Anna. It's not as if she doesn't love and care for her. In those video it gets portrayed as if the mother doesn't care for Anna and planned to have her so she can donate her organs. That's not the case. And Anna was okay with donating her organs. She wanted to do that. She was fine with that. But Kate wanted to die. Kate didn't want her sister to donate her organs to her.
@@jollyquinn430 They literally did make the second daughter so that she could be an organ donor. I don't remember hearing anything about the umbilical cord in the video. So, yes, I'm judging her. They made a second child to use as a guinea pig so the first dying one could live.
@@jollyquinn430 She is abusive. These excuses are exactly what she would use to convince herself she isnt evil, but she is. "Caring" and "loving" is not enough when you lose sight of the actual person.
How is this not illegal? The mother, as a lawyer, was literally guilt shaming her daughter in the court about literally cutting herself open to permanently disable her by giving up her organ to her dying sister. How did the judge not instantly go, “hold up, ya’ll going to jail”
this is so f”cked up, i’m with the disable girl which isnt disable at all she was healthy the whole time until her parents took her away i thought parents supposed to protect their children but no this is depraved
Based on what I understand, all Anna had to do was tell the doctor she was being coerced into giving her kidney and the doctor would simply say she wasn't compatible for donation. The laws around organ donation are pretty strict to prevent things like this.
@@adrienneb.4710 I dont think it was possible in this case. If I understood right, since she vas a Saviour siblings she was literally created so that she was be a perfect match. If I understood what the internet said corectly she was tested for a match already as an embryo and if she wasnt a match she basically wouldnt have been born.
@@lunawolf8886 it's not about her bio compatability but her willingness to donate. There is a lot of unwillingness to be organ donors because people fear doctors will prioritize getting their organs over saving their lives in an emergency so there are a lot of circumstances that have to be met for a donor to be approved. For a live donor, US doctors are not supposed to approve a donor if they are being pressured or coerced to donate. I can't imagine that being conceived for the purposes of donation would override their obligation to Anna to look after her well-being.
@@adrienneb.4710 Yeah... I undestand that. What I meant was that because Anna was made so that she was the perfect donor than telling the doctor she was being coerced into giving her kidney and the doctor seing she wasn't compatible would not work because the knew she was... (And there is also the fact that she wanted to donate. Her sister didnt want her to)
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section Google it. There's plenty of articles on the matter. Having another child to harvest for blood, bone marrow and organs.
In the meantime, I did some research myself, and apparently it is really a thing. There are a few YT videos and a Wikipedia article. What do I think about it? Difficult! Donation of fluids/tissues or even organs by family members/relatives/friends/partners is fine, as long as it is really done of one's own free will. But if a child is conceived for the sole purpose of using it as a spare parts store, that's a completely different matter. But I can also understand the parents that they want to do everything in their power to keep their child alive. Ultimately, it depends on how they treat and raise their "donor child".
Surprisingly (or not), "savior siblings" are legal to "create" in the UK but not in Canada, Switzerland and the USA. How it can be legal ANYWHERE is disgusting.
I'm pretty certain that it's not legal in the UK. I've recently been looking at Cloning in Biology and it was mentioned that it's illegal. Edit: I am from the UK
Savior Siblings isn't cloning though. It's when people naturally have children for the sole purpose of organ donation for the other child while also raising the second child into thinking they have to save their sibling because it's "being a good brother/sister". It's essentially glorified grooming.@@TetraPrismYT
This situation is more common than y’all might think. It’s not uncommon for siblings of children with leukemia to have to do bone marrow transplants, a painful and terrifying procedure, only for their parents to ignore them or barely give them any credit because they’re too focused on the sick child. It’s one of the reasons why I decided to become an art therapist, I wanna work in hospitals with the whole family.
My youngest nephew was basically conceived for his bone marrow and white blood cells so that my other niece and nephew could be cured of Sickle Cell. It only worked with my niece
I've donated 3 times already. It isn't as painful as most people media portrait it. Hell, I've had bruises far more painful from playing soccer or just hitting myself doing a project at home than the whole ordeal of donating and recovery.
It’s not so much bodily autonomy laws that are needed, as legal obligations of parents and medical providers not to harm the bodies of healthy children, even if it’s to save the life of a sick sibling. The principle of legal consent is what this is about; ie a child cannot consent to donating bone marrow or an organ or any procedure that will possibly impact her health. And no one else has the right to consent on her behalf.
Forcing a blood donation is fine to an extent because the donation has no lasting effects. Organ donation must be done under their own free will. Any permanent procedure that is unnecessary to prevent the loss of life or limb should simply be restricted to people who are legally adults with an exception for reconstructive surgery for burn victims.
@@anniejuan1817 We already have laws that give adults their own bodily autonomy. The second half of my statement was that minors even as old as 17 do not have the complete mental capacity to elect to have irreversible unnecessary surgeries. Honestly I would believe that the required mental capacity would be more so at 30 rather than 18 but I find it unfair to steal the ability to make such a choice while they are still eligible for forced military service.
I watched this movie, it was heartbreaking. The ironic thing was that Kate was tired of fighting the cancer and didn't want Anna's kidney. She supported Anna's fight to have the right over her own body.
Honestly the mother pissed me off the most in this film. Like seriously, she put on the backburner her son's learning disability (I heard in the book he was more wild and did some desperate things to just get his dad's attention), ignored her youngest's mental and physical health and then had the gall to get angry when she didn't want to be a human pin cushion (seriously, I remember even the dad starting to understand why Anna was doing this and she got pisses at him), and then she completely ignored what Kate really wanted. I get the idea was her being a mother desperate to save her child, but how she was okay with sacrificing her other two (and then expecting them to just be okay with that) always pissed me off. Also the doctor who suggested the whole thing also pissed me off. Like I remember when he was being questioned, Anna's lawyer asked if what she went through benefited Anna. Doctor responded saying: "she got to help her sister" Thanks for reinforcing the fact that Anna was basically spare parts for Kate and nothing else.
@@hannahcarter5079agreed. The mother’s character was a bit over the top but until you’ve been in a situation where you could lose a child it’s easy to judge. She was desperate and desperation can make people do something they normally wouldn’t do. She thought she was fighting for her daughter’s life but she was tearing her family apart in the process.
Right I wish The mother got more consequences because like this is so unfair like even if she was doing it for her sister the mother still committed really bad crime and used her youngest daughter as a scrap doll.
I did a 10 page essay on this in College. There was one couple that had over 20 abortions until they finally conceived a doner match. I think it was over 30, but I can't remember, so we'll go with 20. The hardest part, is it takes a while before the test can occur, so the baby is fairly far along when the abortion happens. I don't care to recall the rest of it. The entire essay was full of horror stories.
The notion that someone is actually done this in real life is just disgusting how can you make a second child and not love them at all just treat them like a spare parts car
What I never understood is how Anna’s Plight never set off any child protection issues with the school? Like, all those absences due to having to donate to her older sister, HAD to have counted as child abuse or endangering. If I had been Anna´s teacher, I’d have called cps on these parents to look into it
Lol! CPS won’t act even if a kid comes to school with bruises saying, “My dad hit me.” Teachers are mandated reporters, though, so they might have reported, but I promise something like this with doctors agreeing wouldn’t have gone anywhere
Unless she told her teachers she was being forced against her will, the parents probably fobbed off the school quite easily with a doctor's note confirming that she was undergoing medical treatment.
becouse her mothers a lawyer she would have filed something with the school saying they were for medical reasons there really is no age retirement for donating blood or orgaunes only parental consent if under age and to make sure it wont effect quality of life in the short term
@@tracim3080 Where I live, the school would call CPS if a kid is out for a week, or for too many days... Happened to an ex of mine. CPS will act in some cases, just not the ones that matter mostly. Then again, the mom did outright say she doesnt believe her daughter has rights so there's that..
Sad story. On the one hand I can understand a mothers need and desire to do what ever she can to save her daughter. What I can’t get behind is doing it at the expense of another regardless of it being a sibling or a complete stranger.
Nope. I would shift time itself if I could to make sure my baby girl stays safe. But if I had another child, I would then shift time to be able to keep THAT BABY AS WELL. There’s something incredibly deranged to have another child solely for the survival of, and in spite of the other child. It’s all sorts of horrific.
@@all3survivor maybe it is more common than we all think but that don’t make it right. I would at least like to think a doctor would have to take into consideration the health of a donor be it for blood or organ transplant. The risks might be too great for a doctor.
If it's acceptable for me to slit a pig's throat to feed myself on a desert island, why isn't it acceptable to use another human being's organs to save another human? At least the girl gets to live, for the most part. We don't exactly get pigs to donate their organs and flesh when we want it.
im not making excuses for them but parents who do this are usually only doing it for the unbiligal cord for stem cells or bone marrow its basically a full fix after one go thing the child is raised knowing that they can save there sibling its not usually abusive like this and you def will never see partners have a kid to give up something like a kindly or lung you see a more realistic version of savor siblings on the show House MD
@@seanbraley2772Technically they didn't have her to give the kidney but they kept taking and when it come to “we need a kidney” they just decided that it's ok to put their healthy kid at risk. It may start with an umbilical chord and end up with an an organ, why a child is supposed to spend their childhood inside a hospital just because their sibling is sick. There must be laws to prohibit organ donation till 18 to avoid even if a minority but probably still existent cases of psychotic parents butchering their children like this. The moment it's a clinical procedure that is painful and traumatizing for the child it shouldn't be allowed. Bone marrow extraction is painful and I can't imagine parents making their children go through it.
If a CHILD has died like in a car accident the parents can legally make the dead child a donor. ( custody parent only) A living child can't make that distinction until their 18. ( without a court order) however the PARENTS can and do exactly that unless the child or someone fighting for child rights make a court issue of it. ( medical staff has laws in place to cover their butts in every state)
The only thing I can say about this whole movie is that Kate was the only one protecting Anna. When Anna's lawyer asked her mother the question of who sticks up for Anna, she couldn't answer, which is all the proof I needed to understand how little she cares. Kate wanted to die so she could stop hurting, and so Anna wouldn't be used like that anymore.
I’ve always been troubled by the idea of doing this, even if it’s to save a dying child’s life. It’s not ethical to manufacture a human being basically to provide spare parts. But doctors and scientists seem to find it easy to overlook the ethical violations of the manufactured child’s rights, if it adds another year to the lives of their own patients. And at what point would they draw the line?
In the book the parents planned to use the stem cells from the umblical cord of the newborn for the sick child. This does not hurt the newborn at all, taking the cells is neither risky nor does it create discomfort, nor does it take long. In real life those stem cells indeed can help, they are also sought after for research. I do not know exactely what makes them so special. Also to diagnose for instance what risk the newborn has to develop an allergy later. I think the special thing about the stem cells from the umblical cord it is that they have not yet specialized, these cells can become anything so to speak. A cell in the skin, the eye, the liver, .... Anyway in the book the stem cells did not help BUT it turned out that the healthy girl could be a good match to donate organs. So in the book they did not get a second child as potential organ donor. This idea came up later. Now asking for one kidney is much more consequential than asking for stem cells (completely harmless). Or asking for bone marrow. That is painful, requires a hospital stay, but does not do lasting damage to the donor. With only one kidney a person has to be much more careful - and if they happen to lose that kidney too, they need a transplant.
This whole “savior sibling”/“donor child” practice should be outlawed completely. Giving birth to a kid only so you can use them as an organ bank for your other kid and ruining the kids life with endless surgeries, no time to be a kid, constantly being forced to risk their own life for an older sibling who’s clearly not going to get better, and uncaring parents is inhumane and disgusting. I’m honestly shocked that this hasn’t been fully outlawed yet.
That question that's been on my mind is what would've happened if Anna ended up losing the case? What exactly would the mother achieve? Would Anna still be forced to give up a kidney against her will? Or would she still have the rights to protect herself? Really curious about that.
A very controversial subject, sensitively and openly handled. No parent should have the right to treat one child as a body farm for another child. It should always be the right of the individual to decide if they want to donate or not - it should not be a decision forced on someone because "family". People are always ready to force, urge, nag or dictate to someone to "do the right thing", especially when it's not them that has to do it.
you said it, the family is everyone involved, not "everyone involved except for Anna"; if i was the mum that situation id sooner look to the black market before parting out one of my kids like an old Pontiac
What's even very cruel is that the parents had never asked Anna in the first place if she wants to be a donner for her sister Kate. They did it without her consent. Hell, they actually started using Anna when she was just a toddler. There's a disturbing scene when 3 year old Anna was protesting because she didn't want any procedure being done to her. She didn't want to be cut open. It makes me so mad. But the hero of the story is really Kate because she hated that Anna was being used. She also hated that Anna was being disrespected and unloved by both parents. Especially the mom. So Kate did the right thing to encourage Anna to stand up for herself.
This movie hit close to home for me. My sister has micro sickle cell anaemia and I've always had to be her helper, protector, and just let her hit me when upset ( very often I must say, she's a spoilt bad tempered person) so that her spleen wouldn't burst etc etc. Now we're middle aged and she still uses me to pay bills all the time while verbally attacking me. When we were young she'd say things like that nobody likes me ( I have many long lasting friendships, she has short term friends), that I'll die alone ( btw, she's divorced, not me) and it still gets to me. Both our parents have died young due to cancer and she hardly helped out with caring for them. I'm honestly feeling this girl in the movie so much, the end spoilt it a bit though. They all had to be "good", so the girl ends up staying a victim in my eyes. I was so proud that she stood up for her rights, only to be let down when it was revealed she was just helping her sick sister again.
The ending of the book is a lot sadder. In the book Anna dies in a car accident right after winning the case so becomes an organ donor for Kate anyway. In the book Kate survives and Anna dies.
The thing that some therapists will not reveal to you (directly): if you are still responding to such abuse, you need the abuse to fill-in a hole in yourself. The victims make themselves the victims by feeling victimized. They are very aggressive - that's why victims make perfect tyrants and abusers. I guess you just want her to apoligize and behave, on condition that only after that you will feel better. Which is the ways she actually controls you. So, it's either the hard and long way of letting it go and stopping victimized behaviour... or you get this from you sis and many other people of the same kind.
@@SHKIESAMA You know alot of theory but lack the empathy to actually do anything useful in practice. How can you make so many assumptions and advice without bothering to find out the actual context?
It seems like a Dr who would suggest something like this should maybe have their license to practice medicine taken away! It’s so fucked up to interfere w an innocent beings physical & mental well being that way.
Better ending than the book. My gosh the book ending is so traumatic having Anna get in a car accident with her lawyer and dies after winning the court case. So in the end Kate gets Anna’s kidney anyways and she beats her cancer and lives.
I just have one question as a medical student, how in the hell did that doctor suggest having another child just for the organ donation concept?! Isn’t that ethically or morally wrong?? In medicine, even if you’re 100% match, things can still go wrong in organ donation, and so the life of 1 child will be destroyed and the other one is still dying anyways.
what the parents are doing is the same as organ trafficking. there are stories where criminals kidnap and take the organ of someone. it i an urban legend and done in movies and tv (recentlly in a episode of 911 lonestar) but can happen. people might say "but its her parents doing it" but they are doing it without her consent. she has no choice as a minor, all medical descions are made by parents. id (and Im sure most people) would donate their blood, or bone marrow or organ for someone they love. but its their choice
I know that the book is so much better than the movie and so much more emotional, but I still ugly cry every time I watch it or see someone else watching it. Can't help it, having two sisters and imagining one of them in this situation...
The book was leagues better than the movie. I just can’t watch it. The tiny bits I’ve ever seen just makes me think of the book and how different they made the movie. It’s so beautiful and terrifying, tragic and inspirational. So many emotions all in a single story.
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I cried like Kate was my child! Cameron Diaz, my goodness! The acting, story, writing, cast, Wonderful Movie!!!
You sound like an HSP (Highly sensitive person)😊 Like me, you feel the emotions and pain of the characters on screen. I've had to not watch stressful things before bed so that I don't stress out over the characters in shows!
I saw a similar movie. Except that, when the sick sibling passed away, the mother demanded the family throw the "spare" out. The father refused, so she started deliberately doing things to make the girl sick, and often hurt her. So the father divorced the woman and left with the girl to protect her.
This is a book by Jodi Picoult called My Sister's Keeper. The movie is fairly on board with the book except for the ending. In the book Anna wins the court case, but gets into a car accident on the way home and is declared brain dead. Kate is then rushed into surgery and given Anna's kidney. Kate goes on to live a long life without her sister and her first love. ALL of Jodi Picoult's books have a twist in the end. She's amazing yall should read her books.
I must say I find the book ending kind of sadistic. What was the point of that? No wonder they felt the need to change it for the movie to make it more digestible. Somehow I got the impression that even with Anna‘s sacrifices Kate would never be healthy but her pain and misery would only be prolonged. The ending in the book said otherwise and I feel this opens a whole other can of worms.
@@MR-rj2qw - I completely agree. The ending ruined the whole book for me. That the kidney transplant was a success and Kate was magically better made the whole story feel pointless. Anna giving her the kidney would have solved all the problems. It meant the mom had been right the entire time. The movie ending was far better. It's how the book should have ended.
@@MR-rj2qwKate living a healthy life after the kidney transplant is unlikely. If she's already had cancer twice, it'll probably come back a third time this time without Anna. Organ transplants don't magically cure or make you immune to cancer.
She’s not old enough to understand the concept of all of this but she was old enough to get 7 inch knives stuck into her hips at 5 years old. That’s some mental gymnastics right there
I don't understand their parents logic in this. So in order to save one of your daughters life you have to ruin another one of your daughters life? Make that make since.
This is one of the rare stories that legitimately turn my stomach sour, and not in the fun way (I'm a huge Horror fan). I had to keep pausing the video to deal with how disgusting the parents are.
and this is so much worse in the book. anna does win the case but then she dies in a car accident and kate ends up getting her kidney anyways. so kate survived and anna fulfilled the sick purpose she was created for.
Spoiler alert: Jodi Picoult's book, which has the same title, My Sister's Keeper, has a very different and much more upsetting ending. Don't think if you've seen the movie you know the book or the case it was based on--google Mary, Anissa, and Marissa Ayala. Also, from the '90s through to 2010 this has been dealt with in numerous television episodes--usually crime shows. CSI and Criminal Minds to name just two, I think Law and Order did as well. It lends itself well to the question what might the sick child or family do if the donor child starts to say no.
Can you imagine growing up in this family with this kind of knowledge. Mom will be like 'Hi sweetie I need you to go under the knife again and give your organs to your older sister so she can live longer. I mean your life expectancy is lowered but that's a small price to pay for saving your sister's life (cuz she's the REAL favorite child)'
I also read the book and they completely changed the ending in the movie. In the book it’s far more tragic. Mr Campbell takes Ana with him in his car and has a seizure while driving causing an accident. Her father - as a fireman- is on duty and finds her but she dies due to her injuries and Kate eventually gets her kidney and recovers always feeling guilty of causing the death of her sister because she begged her to help her die. But nevertheless, the movie is very good!
The book is so much better. It is eventually revealed that it was Kate’s idea that Sarah should sue their parents for medical emancipation. The constant chemotherapy & radiation treatments has put Kate into renal failure, requiring a kidney transplant. Kate is tired of the constant hospitalizations and wants to stop the treatments for her cancer and also feels guilty for all that her sister has had to go through to help fight the cancer. During the trial , Kate is hospitalized, probably for the last time as she is close to death from kidney failure. Sarah wins her medical emancipation, meaning that her parents can no longer force her to donate any more blood cells, bone marrow ( very painful to donate) and she doesn’t have to donate a kidney if she doesn’t want to. On the way to the hospital to see Kate before she dies, Sarah is in a very severe car accident, and is severely & fatally injured. Her lawyer agrees to donate Sarah’s kidney, because Sarah actually wanted to donate, but Kate convinced her that she didn’t want it, Kate was ready to die. Epilogue, Kate is healthy, finally in remission form the cancer. She says she has no need of pictures or home movies to remember her little sister, all she had to do is feel the scar on her side , where the doctors put Sarah’s kidney to remember her sister
The mother wasn’t really a villain. She was so focused on saving her sick child, that she was blinded to the needs of her other children. Sarah was originally conceived to donate umbilical cord blood, containing stem cells, no affect to Sarah’s wellbeing. But it didn’t cure Kate’s cancer. So more and more was required of Sarah to donate , and a kidney donation would’ve prevented Sarah from living a full life and playing soccer like she loved to do. And what if, one day , Sarah’s remaining kidney should fail? The mom was unintentionally making Sarah feel like all she was worth was her body parts to help her sister. The mom was also neglecting the older brother to the point he was committing acts of vandalism & arson, just to get their mother’s attention
Jodi Picolt, the author, is known for having a final twist that upends the whole narrative of the story. Also for the obvious extensive research that goes into her novels , like savior siblings in this novel. Other research is into bee keeping and husbandry, Amish culture, music therapy, bullying, neurodivergent teens , school shootings, custody battles for embryos, lgbtq rights, racism, transgender teens, a teenager having to decide whether or not to take their brain dead parent off life support , the study of wolves in the wild. She is an excellent storyteller, ironically the title of another of her novels, about Nazi hunting
The movie ending is better. I hate that the healthy child dies so that the sick sister can get her kidney right after she fought so that wouldn’t happen
I read this book. The mother's mission in life is saving Kate. Anna's wishes or feelings don't matter. The whole family revolves around Kate. I understand having a seriously sick child cannot be easy but you can't sacrifice the rest of your family for the sake of one person. In the book I couldn't stand Sara and I can't stand her in the movie.
This movie is truly sad but there are parents that have actually done this exact thing. Having a child has a human donor for a sibling is deplorable and these parents should be charged with child abuse.
It should be illegal in the first place. The child can’t consent. It’s not in line with the doctor’s role. They’re meant to treat people. Not make kids sick, for another kid’s benefit.
@@KaylaMarie-ox8le I view both situations the same right now. I am considerably young to have a moral dilemma about this, but they definitely seem very similar to me. Right now, I don't plan on giving birth to a child but would be happy to adopt a child when I am suitable for it.
@@Excog_ Parents have an obligation to keep any child they have healthy and whole, not to use that child as a spare parts provider for a sick older sibling.
the movie is kinda different from the book tho. So I tend to have a special place for the book version in my heart :'''( I recommend you to read the book, it has so many layers.
the mother is sickening, a sad excuse for a mother. some people dont deserve children, shes on that list, right up there with people who bring kids to trap houses. loving someone and loving the idea of someone are two entirely different things, the "mother" loved the idea of her daughter, but in reality, her daughter was dying, she was grasping at straws trying to get her ideal daughter back, she loved that ideal daughter, but her daughter, who was dying, she loathed, because she was dying. love your children, no matter what, that doesnt mean enable them, but love them. she realized at the end she was wrong for how she thought, but if this wasnt a movie she would forever hate herself, resent who she was, forever. she came around in the end, but thats too late, her, her living daughter, her husband, her son, they will all remember the worst, because once you see someone at their worst, its hard to see them at their best.
I get Sarah was being mother but she was also a selfish person because of what she put this younger child through. Can we please advocate for her arrest? Did it never occur to this “ lawyer “ that she was committing child endangerment on Anna and never even cared? Take away her license to defend , please
We end up finding out that Anna was fighting for her sister’s wishes- but even if she wasn’t, this never should have happened to Anna. This was so wrong.
I just discovered this movie months ago and it reminds me of my friend's story. Long story ahead.... She has a younger sister who was always the favorite one. My friend wasn't treated right. They call her "accident" since she was conceived when they were still young and in highschool. They didn't took care of her and was passed around her grandparents who thankfully treated her great. They did that while pursuing their dreams and careers. Living their life as if nothing happened. Her parents somehow still ended up together and got married. They decided that they were finally ready to build their so called family. Instead of catching up with their estranged daughter they had another child. This child according to them was a "dream" and "perfect one". They spoiled her while disregarding my friend. They just took her in when her grandparents passed away, got sick or became to weak to take care of her. She was treated differently. They keep reasoning that she was like a stranger since she doesn't grew with them. I remember that there were times when they had family outings or trips every weekend and most of the time she wans't allowed to join them. They will leave her with her grandma on her apartment for elderly retirees and make an excuse that she misses her grandma that's why she wants to be left or their daughter's friends to arrange a play date andlet her stay with us over the weekend. Even my parents had catched up with it and were weirded out since it became to often. Its not like they didn't have money to take her because as far as I know they were loaded. This unfair treatment made my friend think thay she was adopted or something. So oneday she decided to take a DNA test with both of her parents. And to our suprise she wasn't adopted. They were her real biological parents. Another thing was that they never called her their daughter or any affectionate names like that instead they call her by her name. One day my friend decided to run away from home and stayed with us for a few nights. My parents called her parents the first day she stayed with us but they didn't care. When my dad decided to bring her home since he believes that they need to talk she run away and got lost for almost a month. My parents were the one who reported her missing since she was a minor while her parents were like yeah she was really hard headed and a pain in our butt. She ended up hiding in her grandmas retirement home. She also beg her grandma on mom side and grand dad on her father side to give her directly some inheritance while they were alive so that she could start up on her own. Thankfully they did gave her a good amount of money. She also requested to the court to be free from her parents but of coures they didn't agree since she was a minor. Another problem that she encountered was the social services since they want her to come back to her parents and also when she was leasing house and other documentary stuff like that needs consent from her parents. So she decided to change her guardians from her parents to her grand parent. Her parents delightfully agreed to this. After a few years she was contacted by her parents out of no where. They were apologetic to what they did. They promised to do everything to make up for it. They went out every week and invited her to live with them. But since my friend was one of the nicest people that i met she forgave them easily and was the happiest person during those time. But low and behold they showed their intentions. It turned out that they needed her for their favorite daughter. She had been sick and went various treatment. They did everything and now their last hope is a liver transplant (not fully but a part of it). But the problem was that her type was hard to find and his dad wasn't a complete match while her mother cant go through cause of past health condition. My friend was a perfect match. As time goes by the request became demands and they were pestering her to do it. They eve went on their knees. This made my friend completely heartbroken since she realized that they would do things to that extent for her sister but not even a flinch of hand for her. She was hesitant to do it but because of all the pressure she eventually went with it. But after the operation she completely cuted her ties with them. She changed her name and tried to move away as far from them. But i can see that until that time my friend was still hoping that she would see even the tiniest love or care from them. She was waiting for a call, message or whatsoever from them but no nothing. She cant understand why they were like that to her.
I feel so bad for your friend.. And the worst part is, unlike movies there won't be any real karma.. They'll probably live the rest of their life happily without even an ounce of guilt towards your friend... Hope she also lives happily away from those brain dead morons..
@@Shreya-dv9ur she's trying her best to live happily as she could be but I can see that she was really struggling. It became hard for her to maintain lasting relationships. She was undergoing therapy for it. But besides that she's doing great and had been close to us her childhood friends as well as our parents. She spends Hollidays and special occasion with our family. And I think there was some kind of karma in her story because her grand parents from both side gave her most of their inheritance and almost left nothing for her parents. They knew how much she needed it so that she could take care of herself. Thankfully her grandparents really loved her. Her parents on the other hand was back in action pestering her about the inheritance. They were guilt tripping and gaslighting her into giving it up. But she learned her lesson and had realized that they don't deserve her or her money.
This movie makes me sick, because there are mothers out there just like this, for real. Ones that put one child over all the others, who are evil to their core and should be stripped of their parental rights, and sterilized.
It's been years since I watched this movie. The parents had the younger daughter to use her bone marrow (to keep the other daughter alive). It was really painful and she was going to keep doing it, but her older sister told her not to. In the movie there is a scene where she is a toddler running away from her parents at the hospital, but they made her do the procedure anyway... Basically the sick sister was the one to protect her little sister (and before that her younger sister was the one keeping her older sister alive for years with bone marrow/etc. She wanted to helped her older sister, but her older sister instead wanted her younger sister to have a real life/not suffer/have a burden. The ending made me sob. (Around 9:00 minutes into the the video is pertinent to the storyline of the movie)
The amount of hate I have for the mom is huge…. The channel does not show one scene where the kid had to donate bone marrow, which is an excruciating painful procedure at a really young age
It’s a mix of emotions. I understand that as a parent, you are willing to do everything to protect your child, but at the same time, asking another child to give up their health? As I said, my emotions are mixed.
I heard a true story where the family had no love for the child born as a donor and treated them badly. They even ran away but a judge decreed, the parents had a right to do with them as they pleased. When they were 18 and could no longer be forced to give them organs, they were thrown into the street and forgotten. I thought they should have been able to sue the parents and judge for causing unneeded suffering.
@@franziskani it's just one of those stories you hear online. Maybe fiction but if so, they should be professional writers. There was so much pain. It's also something that does happen.
@@ankebosing1968 wish they did, but I guess having bodily autonomy doesn’t cover being a glorified organ donor by your parents, but it’s not surprising considering how a lot of the laws protecting children have gotten too lenient lately
I think it, that unless the child says that she Doesn't want the go through with the transplant then really there nothing that can be done. And with gaslighting and emotional manipulation done by some parents the child will just go along with it.
Movie was based on very common scenario. Parents of sick children never able to accept the reality to let go whereas the sick child is more susceptible in accepting the fate. In such dilemmas as human, parents are very much in denial & ignorance in both case of the child in pain in sickness as well as the donor child. Everyone in the situation is in pain emotionally & physically. No one is in blame.
This hit home due to the fact that my 14yr old niece had Leukemia and passed away do to it after going through all the treatments and a slow of other procedures and was in full remission and like 2months later out of nowhere it came back with a vengeance which in turn ended with my Niece succumbing to the disease and passing away . The mother in this movie ( and don't fool yourself that's exactly how this mother is in this film. She did it under the guise of love and caring for her daughter which she undoubtedly did,but also her whole thing of using the other daughter as a spare parts factory is in and of itself twisted and sick. The fact that she "created" this child ,this Human Being with the pure intent as to use her body for parts and whatnot for her daughter with Leukemia. I mean it's not like buying a car to use for spare parts for another car ya know what I mean. I mean would you even build a entire new car,for the sole purpose to be used for parts for another car and altering its parts so they will work with the other car. I mean the thought of someone doing that is frightening. I know it's her child and that she would do anything to save her and to cure her,but at some point as tough and hard to do as it is do you even entertain the idea of doing something like this. All your doing is creating a completely new life a new Human Being a living breathing life that can think and feel and all the things we all can do. But wait you alter her genetics so she most compatible to be used for the sole purpose of keeping your older daughter alive. That is a truly morally and ethically wrong as well as being wrong on so many other levels and the fact that she I'd a doctor makes it somehow worse to me. It's almost like she feels like she can play God,like a God Complex type of thing. Now I know this film evoked from a story of two real sisters one of whom was born with Fanconi Aenim
I dont get why the mom didnt realize that when the sick one was saying she was ready to go and the other daughter was begging not to do the surgery that she needed to stop
I remember being at my grandma's place, I was a kid back then, I think I was around either 9 or 10; and I accidentally stumbled upon this movie at night in my bed when I was suppose to be already sleeping, and I watched this movie until the end. This movie stroke me so much that I fell in like a depression-paranoia state where I was so afraid of death and of dying, I even remember going with my dad and grandma to a store and I was so badly stroke by this, that my dad even asked me if I was sick or had fever, which is how bad I looked after this movie. Ah, memories!
Why? It's different with children, but my siblings are adults and very capable of figuring out for themselves what they want to do. I can imagine donating a kidney to save one of them. I would rather have one kidney and my sisters. Organ donation can be a wonderful thing if everyone genuinely wants it.
@@junbh2 i would rather tell them to keep their organs just in case someone in their family needs it, I'm not married so i can donate mine if they need it but my siblings are married and have their own kids.
@@justsayin2085Things like blood, stem cells, bone marrow & pieces of liver can be easily donated without long-term side effects to the donor. Kidney donors have a harder time recovering, but many would still rather take the time to heal than to lose a loved one. The issue in the story is that the procedures were many, and the girls could not refuse to donate or receive the donations
Unpopular opinion, but I think sometimes a good story should just be left at it being a good story. It's not legally accurate, medical shows aren't medically accurate, and there are law shows that aren't accurate too. But it has a nice plot, likeable characters, and a nice moral lesson (sometimes). It's okay to just let it be inaccurate. You don't have to complain about all the inaccuracies, because the point is just for it to be a good story. Edit: grammar
@@LadyCheshire95 Jodi Picoult wrote a dramatic piece of fiction that was very loosely based on a real family. When I say it was loosely based, I mean that the family really did have a sick child, and that they did end up having a "savior sibling." The family loathes and despises the book and the movie because the implications paint a horrible light on science that helped a lot of families.
I can't believe a country going through an abortion access crisis having such issues understanding a body autonomy issue. Being forced to sacrifice one's health for another? Unheard of.
The scene where the lawyer pulls out a gun and shoots the little girl dead was very disturbing. Then he took the dead girl's family to Denny's for breakfast, to make it up to them? Bizarre.
I think this is the first time i ever said this. The movie was better than the book. I said it, and i dont regret it In the book, Anna is killed after winning her case, and they take her kidney and give it to her sister. Her sister is cured of Lukemia after being given the kidney. And the family almost forget that Anna existed until the occasional photo they stumble upon of her because she was only born to save her sister. *hated* the book
I have mixed feelings about this. But I know that if I were in Kate's shoes, I wouldn't want this for Anna and I would want to be let free too. Anna doesn't deserve this and neither does Kate. They both deserve freedom, even if they are different kinds of freedom. In this situation, I think Kate finally found peace. The mother is definitely terrible tho. I agree that that is illegal and disgusting.
The book was extremely different then the movie especially the ending SPOILERS In the ending Anna had won the court case and didn't have to do the kidney transplate she was in the car drivinf with the lawyer when they got into an accident the lawyer survived but Anna ended up brain dead her parents then do the kidney transplate which allows Kate to live
For all the people wondering about that, this is obviously illegal. And that makes sense, as no matter how you put it, it is morally wrong. In some comment, people say that it is legal in the UK, but what is legal in the UK is to genetically create an embryo without the genetic disease, and use the steem cells of the umbillical chord as treatment. That is still a moral dilemma, regarding wether the new born will be treated with the respect and love that it deserves, and not as an extension of the sibling, but it is NOTHING like the film. Like the film the child doesn't need a lawyer. All it takes is for her to say no, since all individuals have bodily autonomy.
I love how Anna was willing to sacrifice herself for Kate, but once Kate tells her to stop, Anna realises that she's more than just spare parts for Kate.
Kate loved Anna more than their parents did
Anna was only ok with it before because she didn’t know any better. The mother exploited Anna’s ignorance to make her donate her organs.
@nikki2jessica It's often easier for people to accept the possibility of their own death than their child's. Especially if their entire life has been one of illness and pain.
I'm not saying these parents were right to use Anna the way they did, but they were desperately trying to hold on to their older daughter. Also, it was mostly just the mother who kept pushing for the donation; the father was more on Anna's side.
@@harringt100in the end it comes to Mates heath was a priority over Anna’s because her mother never saw her as a daughter but a donor. She never connected emotionally with her and never understood her because she had to be detached from the healthy child she gave birth to suffer and have her health put at risk for another who is already a lost cause. At least her father and brother love her because the mother is a psycho.
Yep it was all about the point
As beautiful as this movie is, I feel like it doesn't do a good enough job expressing how evil and psychotic this is. The mom is portrayed as just being misguided, when in reality she is abusive and disgusting.
I think it was a good premise, but it was a total copout to have the sister be suicidal. The court case did not even matter. The family ends up all happy together. What a waste of the first 90% of the story.
@@LB-gz3ke read the book. It’s completely different including the ending.
@@LB-gz3ke the book has a different ending to this one. I hate the film as book is much better
100% agree. It was hard for me to watch the parts with the mom
She's a woman
Their mother is absolutely horrible. To both of them. She's so selfish she makes her dying daughter comfort her while using her other daughter as an organ donor.
@Aleshia Torres I wouldn't be so quick to judge her as that.
She is a loving mother. She doesn't want to lose her child. They didn't get a second child so that child could donate organs. They wanted to get a second child anyway someday and the doctor said that cells from the umbilical cord could really help Kate. That's a procedure that wouldn't harm Anna at all. That was the plan.
But then those cells don't help that much. And the doctors told them that Anna is a match for other donations. The mother didn't make those decisions easily. But it's a very normal and logical decision to make. What mother would watch her child die?
The mother loves Anna. It's not as if she doesn't love and care for her.
In those video it gets portrayed as if the mother doesn't care for Anna and planned to have her so she can donate her organs. That's not the case.
And Anna was okay with donating her organs. She wanted to do that. She was fine with that. But Kate wanted to die. Kate didn't want her sister to donate her organs to her.
@@jollyquinn430 They literally did make the second daughter so that she could be an organ donor. I don't remember hearing anything about the umbilical cord in the video. So, yes, I'm judging her. They made a second child to use as a guinea pig so the first dying one could live.
@@jollyquinn430 She is abusive. These excuses are exactly what she would use to convince herself she isnt evil, but she is. "Caring" and "loving" is not enough when you lose sight of the actual person.
@@jollyquinn430girl no that’s sick & not justified
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How is this not illegal? The mother, as a lawyer, was literally guilt shaming her daughter in the court about literally cutting herself open to permanently disable her by giving up her organ to her dying sister. How did the judge not instantly go, “hold up, ya’ll going to jail”
this is so f”cked up, i’m with the disable girl which isnt disable at all
she was healthy the whole time until her parents took her away
i thought parents supposed to protect their children but no
this is depraved
Based on what I understand, all Anna had to do was tell the doctor she was being coerced into giving her kidney and the doctor would simply say she wasn't compatible for donation. The laws around organ donation are pretty strict to prevent things like this.
@@adrienneb.4710 I dont think it was possible in this case. If I understood right, since she vas a Saviour siblings she was literally created so that she was be a perfect match. If I understood what the internet said corectly she was tested for a match already as an embryo and if she wasnt a match she basically wouldnt have been born.
@@lunawolf8886 it's not about her bio compatability but her willingness to donate. There is a lot of unwillingness to be organ donors because people fear doctors will prioritize getting their organs over saving their lives in an emergency so there are a lot of circumstances that have to be met for a donor to be approved. For a live donor, US doctors are not supposed to approve a donor if they are being pressured or coerced to donate. I can't imagine that being conceived for the purposes of donation would override their obligation to Anna to look after her well-being.
@@adrienneb.4710 Yeah... I undestand that. What I meant was that because Anna was made so that she was the perfect donor than telling the doctor she was being coerced into giving her kidney and the doctor seing she wasn't compatible would not work because the knew she was... (And there is also the fact that she wanted to donate. Her sister didnt want her to)
Saviour siblings. A real thing where humans are treated as glorified cattle
Is this really "a real thing"? I have never heard of it before.
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section Google it. There's plenty of articles on the matter. Having another child to harvest for blood, bone marrow and organs.
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section yeah unfortunately
Some parents will have kids just to use them as donors
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section it’s as real as it is disgusting
In the meantime, I did some research myself, and apparently it is really a thing. There are a few YT videos and a Wikipedia article.
What do I think about it? Difficult! Donation of fluids/tissues or even organs by family members/relatives/friends/partners is fine, as long as it is really done of one's own free will. But if a child is conceived for the sole purpose of using it as a spare parts store, that's a completely different matter. But I can also understand the parents that they want to do everything in their power to keep their child alive. Ultimately, it depends on how they treat and raise their "donor child".
Surprisingly (or not), "savior siblings" are legal to "create" in the UK but not in Canada, Switzerland and the USA.
How it can be legal ANYWHERE is disgusting.
What’s really gross is the people on her “justifying” the mothers SICK mentally
The UK some pretty bad laws. As an example if a PP is not involved it can't be r***.
I'm pretty certain that it's not legal in the UK. I've recently been looking at Cloning in Biology and it was mentioned that it's illegal. Edit: I am from the UK
Savior Siblings isn't cloning though. It's when people naturally have children for the sole purpose of organ donation for the other child while also raising the second child into thinking they have to save their sibling because it's "being a good brother/sister". It's essentially glorified grooming.@@TetraPrismYT
@@TetraPrismYT strange enough saviour siblings are not illegal in the UK it should be but it is not
This situation is more common than y’all might think. It’s not uncommon for siblings of children with leukemia to have to do bone marrow transplants, a painful and terrifying procedure, only for their parents to ignore them or barely give them any credit because they’re too focused on the sick child. It’s one of the reasons why I decided to become an art therapist, I wanna work in hospitals with the whole family.
Savior siblings…
My youngest nephew was basically conceived for his bone marrow and white blood cells so that my other niece and nephew could be cured of Sickle Cell. It only worked with my niece
I've donated 3 times already. It isn't as painful as most people media portrait it. Hell, I've had bruises far more painful from playing soccer or just hitting myself doing a project at home than the whole ordeal of donating and recovery.
@@j2dge still scary for little kids though
@@j2dge That doesn't make it okay to force your child to donate. Or have a child specifically to be spare parts.
This is why bodily autonomy laws for children are needed.
It’s not so much bodily autonomy laws that are needed, as legal obligations of parents and medical providers not to harm the bodies of healthy children, even if it’s to save the life of a sick sibling. The principle of legal consent is what this is about; ie a child cannot consent to donating bone marrow or an organ or any procedure that will possibly impact her health. And no one else has the right to consent on her behalf.
Forcing a blood donation is fine to an extent because the donation has no lasting effects. Organ donation must be done under their own free will. Any permanent procedure that is unnecessary to prevent the loss of life or limb should simply be restricted to people who are legally adults with an exception for reconstructive surgery for burn victims.
Those laws are needed for adults, too. Bodily autonomy is a basic human right.
@@anniejuan1817 We already have laws that give adults their own bodily autonomy. The second half of my statement was that minors even as old as 17 do not have the complete mental capacity to elect to have irreversible unnecessary surgeries. Honestly I would believe that the required mental capacity would be more so at 30 rather than 18 but I find it unfair to steal the ability to make such a choice while they are still eligible for forced military service.
Yes children are in Danger.
I watched this movie, it was heartbreaking. The ironic thing was that Kate was tired of fighting the cancer and didn't want Anna's kidney. She supported Anna's fight to have the right over her own body.
Honestly the mother pissed me off the most in this film. Like seriously, she put on the backburner her son's learning disability (I heard in the book he was more wild and did some desperate things to just get his dad's attention), ignored her youngest's mental and physical health and then had the gall to get angry when she didn't want to be a human pin cushion (seriously, I remember even the dad starting to understand why Anna was doing this and she got pisses at him), and then she completely ignored what Kate really wanted.
I get the idea was her being a mother desperate to save her child, but how she was okay with sacrificing her other two (and then expecting them to just be okay with that) always pissed me off.
Also the doctor who suggested the whole thing also pissed me off.
Like I remember when he was being questioned, Anna's lawyer asked if what she went through benefited Anna.
Doctor responded saying: "she got to help her sister"
Thanks for reinforcing the fact that Anna was basically spare parts for Kate and nothing else.
Yeah I hated the mother so much.
The selfish woman didn't care about any of them, including Kate. It was about her and her ego
Grief makes you do crazy things.
@@hannahcarter5079agreed. The mother’s character was a bit over the top but until you’ve been in a situation where you could lose a child it’s easy to judge. She was desperate and desperation can make people do something they normally wouldn’t do. She thought she was fighting for her daughter’s life but she was tearing her family apart in the process.
Right I wish The mother got more consequences because like this is so unfair like even if she was doing it for her sister the mother still committed really bad crime and used her youngest daughter as a scrap doll.
Any Doctor who would even suggest a spare parts donor child is unethical and should be disbarred as a doctor.
YEP!!!!!
It's a movie but, there are a lot of doctors with questionable sense of ethics.
Woodchipper 2024!
They will be in the real world. This is a fictional story.
I did a 10 page essay on this in College. There was one couple that had over 20 abortions until they finally conceived a doner match. I think it was over 30, but I can't remember, so we'll go with 20. The hardest part, is it takes a while before the test can occur, so the baby is fairly far along when the abortion happens. I don't care to recall the rest of it. The entire essay was full of horror stories.
Omg
😮wait what
The notion that someone is actually done this in real life is just disgusting how can you make a second child and not love them at all just treat them like a spare parts car
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Wtf!
What I never understood is how Anna’s Plight never set off any child protection issues with the school? Like, all those absences due to having to donate to her older sister, HAD to have counted as child abuse or endangering. If I had been Anna´s teacher, I’d have called cps on these parents to look into it
It just counts as being out sick/for medical reasons.
Lol! CPS won’t act even if a kid comes to school with bruises saying, “My dad hit me.”
Teachers are mandated reporters, though, so they might have reported, but I promise something like this with doctors agreeing wouldn’t have gone anywhere
Unless she told her teachers she was being forced against her will, the parents probably fobbed off the school quite easily with a doctor's note confirming that she was undergoing medical treatment.
becouse her mothers a lawyer she would have filed something with the school saying they were for medical reasons there really is no age retirement for donating blood or orgaunes only parental consent if under age and to make sure it wont effect quality of life in the short term
@@tracim3080 Where I live, the school would call CPS if a kid is out for a week, or for too many days... Happened to an ex of mine. CPS will act in some cases, just not the ones that matter mostly. Then again, the mom did outright say she doesnt believe her daughter has rights so there's that..
Sad story. On the one hand I can understand a mothers need and desire to do what ever she can to save her daughter. What I can’t get behind is doing it at the expense of another regardless of it being a sibling or a complete stranger.
Nope. I would shift time itself if I could to make sure my baby girl stays safe. But if I had another child, I would then shift time to be able to keep THAT BABY AS WELL. There’s something incredibly deranged to have another child solely for the survival of, and in spite of the other child. It’s all sorts of horrific.
It’s more common then you think, and it becomes a save the sick one and use anything you can to do so
@@all3survivor maybe it is more common than we all think but that don’t make it right. I would at least like to think a doctor would have to take into consideration the health of a donor be it for blood or organ transplant. The risks might be too great for a doctor.
If it's acceptable for me to slit a pig's throat to feed myself on a desert island, why isn't it acceptable to use another human being's organs to save another human? At least the girl gets to live, for the most part. We don't exactly get pigs to donate their organs and flesh when we want it.
@@-MaryPoppins- What if you had no choice? Would you refrain from eating another person if you were stranded out at sea with nothing else?
Children can’t sell anything to a pawn shop. But parents can use their children for parts.
im not making excuses for them but parents who do this are usually only doing it for the unbiligal cord for stem cells or bone marrow its basically a full fix after one go thing the child is raised knowing that they can save there sibling its not usually abusive like this and you def will never see partners have a kid to give up something like a kindly or lung you see a more realistic version of savor siblings on the show House MD
@@seanbraley2772Technically they didn't have her to give the kidney but they kept taking and when it come to “we need a kidney” they just decided that it's ok to put their healthy kid at risk. It may start with an umbilical chord and end up with an an organ, why a child is supposed to spend their childhood inside a hospital just because their sibling is sick. There must be laws to prohibit organ donation till 18 to avoid even if a minority but probably still existent cases of psychotic parents butchering their children like this. The moment it's a clinical procedure that is painful and traumatizing for the child it shouldn't be allowed. Bone marrow extraction is painful and I can't imagine parents making their children go through it.
Wait so terminating a pregnancy is a crime, but organ harvesting is legal?!
Its legal in UK or US.
From what j read in another comment.
Wow......need to verify that.
It isn't legal in the UK. I've looked at that very recently in Biology.
@@JackFrost-ib3xrLegal in UK, not Canada or US.
Not like a petty detail like that would stop a disgusting woman like this.
Exactly
If a CHILD has died like in a car accident the parents can legally make the dead child a donor. ( custody parent only)
A living child can't make that distinction until their 18. ( without a court order) however the PARENTS can and do exactly that unless the child or someone fighting for child rights make a court issue of it. ( medical staff has laws in place to cover their butts in every state)
The only thing I can say about this whole movie is that Kate was the only one protecting Anna.
When Anna's lawyer asked her mother the question of who sticks up for Anna, she couldn't answer, which is all the proof I needed to understand how little she cares. Kate wanted to die so she could stop hurting, and so Anna wouldn't be used like that anymore.
I could never do something like this. You don't have a kid just to be a donor for another one of your kids. It seems so cruel
I’ve always been troubled by the idea of doing this, even if it’s to save a dying child’s life. It’s not ethical to manufacture a human being basically to provide spare parts. But doctors and scientists seem to find it easy to overlook the ethical violations of the manufactured child’s rights, if it adds another year to the lives of their own patients. And at what point would they draw the line?
In the book the parents planned to use the stem cells from the umblical cord of the newborn for the sick child. This does not hurt the newborn at all, taking the cells is neither risky nor does it create discomfort, nor does it take long. In real life those stem cells indeed can help, they are also sought after for research. I do not know exactely what makes them so special. Also to diagnose for instance what risk the newborn has to develop an allergy later. I think the special thing about the stem cells from the umblical cord it is that they have not yet specialized, these cells can become anything so to speak. A cell in the skin, the eye, the liver, ....
Anyway in the book the stem cells did not help BUT it turned out that the healthy girl could be a good match to donate organs. So in the book they did not get a second child as potential organ donor. This idea came up later.
Now asking for one kidney is much more consequential than asking for stem cells (completely harmless). Or asking for bone marrow. That is painful, requires a hospital stay, but does not do lasting damage to the donor. With only one kidney a person has to be much more careful - and if they happen to lose that kidney too, they need a transplant.
This whole “savior sibling”/“donor child” practice should be outlawed completely. Giving birth to a kid only so you can use them as an organ bank for your other kid and ruining the kids life with endless surgeries, no time to be a kid, constantly being forced to risk their own life for an older sibling who’s clearly not going to get better, and uncaring parents is inhumane and disgusting. I’m honestly shocked that this hasn’t been fully outlawed yet.
That question that's been on my mind is what would've happened if Anna ended up losing the case? What exactly would the mother achieve? Would Anna still be forced to give up a kidney against her will? Or would she still have the rights to protect herself? Really curious about that.
The book ends very differently.
@@s.p.8803 How
@@casualperson1477 She dies in an accident and they harvest her organs anyways.
@@s.p.8803 The f*ck
@@s.p.8803 Thats actually so sad :(
A very controversial subject, sensitively and openly handled. No parent should have the right to treat one child as a body farm for another child. It should always be the right of the individual to decide if they want to donate or not - it should not be a decision forced on someone because "family".
People are always ready to force, urge, nag or dictate to someone to "do the right thing", especially when it's not them that has to do it.
you said it, the family is everyone involved, not "everyone involved except for Anna"; if i was the mum that situation id sooner look to the black market before parting out one of my kids like an old Pontiac
What's even very cruel is that the parents had never asked Anna in the first place if she wants to be a donner for her sister Kate. They did it without her consent. Hell, they actually started using Anna when she was just a toddler. There's a disturbing scene when 3 year old Anna was protesting because she didn't want any procedure being done to her. She didn't want to be cut open. It makes me so mad. But the hero of the story is really Kate because she hated that Anna was being used. She also hated that Anna was being disrespected and unloved by both parents. Especially the mom. So Kate did the right thing to encourage Anna to stand up for herself.
This movie hit close to home for me. My sister has micro sickle cell anaemia and I've always had to be her helper, protector, and just let her hit me when upset ( very often I must say, she's a spoilt bad tempered person) so that her spleen wouldn't burst etc etc. Now we're middle aged and she still uses me to pay bills all the time while verbally attacking me. When we were young she'd say things like that nobody likes me ( I have many long lasting friendships, she has short term friends), that I'll die alone ( btw, she's divorced, not me) and it still gets to me. Both our parents have died young due to cancer and she hardly helped out with caring for them.
I'm honestly feeling this girl in the movie so much, the end spoilt it a bit though. They all had to be "good", so the girl ends up staying a victim in my eyes. I was so proud that she stood up for her rights, only to be let down when it was revealed she was just helping her sick sister again.
Why do you continue to help her out? You’re a grown woman with your own life…you can say no
Don’t let someone you love be your chain
The ending of the book is a lot sadder. In the book Anna dies in a car accident right after winning the case so becomes an organ donor for Kate anyway. In the book Kate survives and Anna dies.
The thing that some therapists will not reveal to you (directly): if you are still responding to such abuse, you need the abuse to fill-in a hole in yourself. The victims make themselves the victims by feeling victimized. They are very aggressive - that's why victims make perfect tyrants and abusers. I guess you just want her to apoligize and behave, on condition that only after that you will feel better. Which is the ways she actually controls you. So, it's either the hard and long way of letting it go and stopping victimized behaviour... or you get this from you sis and many other people of the same kind.
@@SHKIESAMA You know alot of theory but lack the empathy to actually do anything useful in practice. How can you make so many assumptions and advice without bothering to find out the actual context?
It seems like a Dr who would suggest something like this should maybe have their license to practice medicine taken away! It’s so fucked up to interfere w an innocent beings physical & mental well being that way.
The mom was forgiven way too fast
It's kind of Hollywood way now this is how make there typical movies
@@heisenberg73215yea, Hollywood is grooming people to have like 0 accountability/penalty for their actions
Yeah, that's a terribly selfish mother.
The true question is what kind of doctor would tell a parent to create a child not for love but for use and use them against their will?
Anna should've asked to be placed with a foster family, during the suit.
No child in her position would do that because despite the lawsuit, she still loves her family
The dying sister care for her sister more than their own mother.. 😢
Better ending than the book. My gosh the book ending is so traumatic having Anna get in a car accident with her lawyer and dies after winning the court case. So in the end Kate gets Anna’s kidney anyways and she beats her cancer and lives.
Damn, was the family at least sad that Anna died?
I just have one question as a medical student, how in the hell did that doctor suggest having another child just for the organ donation concept?! Isn’t that ethically or morally wrong??
In medicine, even if you’re 100% match, things can still go wrong in organ donation, and so the life of 1 child will be destroyed and the other one is still dying anyways.
what the parents are doing is the same as organ trafficking. there are stories where criminals kidnap and take the organ of someone. it i an urban legend and done in movies and tv (recentlly in a episode of 911 lonestar) but can happen.
people might say "but its her parents doing it" but they are doing it without her consent. she has no choice as a minor, all medical descions are made by parents.
id (and Im sure most people) would donate their blood, or bone marrow or organ for someone they love. but its their choice
I know that the book is so much better than the movie and so much more emotional, but I still ugly cry every time I watch it or see someone else watching it. Can't help it, having two sisters and imagining one of them in this situation...
It's one of those rare cases that they're both great, but for different reasons.
The book was leagues better than the movie. I just can’t watch it. The tiny bits I’ve ever seen just makes me think of the book and how different they made the movie.
It’s so beautiful and terrifying, tragic and inspirational. So many emotions all in a single story.
@@bisonfarm Agreed. The fact they changed that beautifully tragic ending is a bloody insult and a half....
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I cried like Kate was my child! Cameron Diaz, my goodness! The acting, story, writing, cast, Wonderful Movie!!!
You sound like an HSP (Highly sensitive person)😊 Like me, you feel the emotions and pain of the characters on screen.
I've had to not watch stressful things before bed so that I don't stress out over the characters in shows!
@@starlingswallow I sometimes wonder if I’m a HSP.
I saw a similar movie. Except that, when the sick sibling passed away, the mother demanded the family throw the "spare" out. The father refused, so she started deliberately doing things to make the girl sick, and often hurt her. So the father divorced the woman and left with the girl to protect her.
Holy crap, what movie was that?! That’s awful!
Kid born
Parents: Oh, look hooney! A spare pair of kidneys!
This is a book by Jodi Picoult called My Sister's Keeper. The movie is fairly on board with the book except for the ending. In the book Anna wins the court case, but gets into a car accident on the way home and is declared brain dead. Kate is then rushed into surgery and given Anna's kidney. Kate goes on to live a long life without her sister and her first love. ALL of Jodi Picoult's books have a twist in the end. She's amazing yall should read her books.
That is FUCKED UP
I've read all of Jodi Picoult's books and I've enjoyed them all
I must say I find the book ending kind of sadistic. What was the point of that? No wonder they felt the need to change it for the movie to make it more digestible.
Somehow I got the impression that even with Anna‘s sacrifices Kate would never be healthy but her pain and misery would only be prolonged. The ending in the book said otherwise and I feel this opens a whole other can of worms.
@@MR-rj2qw - I completely agree. The ending ruined the whole book for me. That the kidney transplant was a success and Kate was magically better made the whole story feel pointless. Anna giving her the kidney would have solved all the problems. It meant the mom had been right the entire time. The movie ending was far better. It's how the book should have ended.
@@MR-rj2qwKate living a healthy life after the kidney transplant is unlikely. If she's already had cancer twice, it'll probably come back a third time this time without Anna. Organ transplants don't magically cure or make you immune to cancer.
Any parent that treats a child like a walking parts factory needs to be committed to a maximum security mental institution.
This is just abusive and horrifying, it makes me angry that the mother was forgiven and gotten away with this.
Ahh yes Savior siblings, some thing that seems like it straight out of a sci-fi, horror movie and yet it’s very real
She’s not old enough to understand the concept of all of this but she was old enough to get 7 inch knives stuck into her hips at 5 years old. That’s some mental gymnastics right there
I don't understand their parents logic in this. So in order to save one of your daughters life you have to ruin another one of your daughters life? Make that make since.
This is one of the rare stories that legitimately turn my stomach sour, and not in the fun way (I'm a huge Horror fan). I had to keep pausing the video to deal with how disgusting the parents are.
and this is so much worse in the book. anna does win the case but then she dies in a car accident and kate ends up getting her kidney anyways. so kate survived and anna fulfilled the sick purpose she was created for.
@@sofiaespinoza8525 whaaaaaaaaat?! 😢
Spoiler alert: Jodi Picoult's book, which has the same title, My Sister's Keeper, has a very different and much more upsetting ending. Don't think if you've seen the movie you know the book or the case it was based on--google Mary, Anissa, and Marissa Ayala. Also, from the '90s through to 2010 this has been dealt with in numerous television episodes--usually crime shows. CSI and Criminal Minds to name just two, I think Law and Order did as well. It lends itself well to the question what might the sick child or family do if the donor child starts to say no.
Which criminal minds episode did they deal with saviour siblings?
Being forced to live with fear of telling that you want to end your life can make more pressure than the Mariana trench
Medical slavery is no less slavery. If a person's body isn't theirs it's slavery.
Can you imagine growing up in this family with this kind of knowledge.
Mom will be like 'Hi sweetie I need you to go under the knife again and give your organs to your older sister so she can live longer. I mean your life expectancy is lowered but that's a small price to pay for saving your sister's life (cuz she's the REAL favorite child)'
I don’t know if the doctor needs to be blamed here. It’s not right, but provides solution. 😂 very inhuman solution tho.
I also read the book and they completely changed the ending in the movie. In the book it’s far more tragic.
Mr Campbell takes Ana with him in his car and has a seizure while driving causing an accident. Her father - as a fireman- is on duty and finds her but she dies due to her injuries and Kate eventually gets her kidney and recovers always feeling guilty of causing the death of her sister because she begged her to help her die.
But nevertheless, the movie is very good!
The book is so much better. It is eventually revealed that it was Kate’s idea that Sarah should sue their parents for medical emancipation. The constant chemotherapy & radiation treatments has put Kate into renal failure, requiring a kidney transplant. Kate is tired of the constant hospitalizations and wants to stop the treatments for her cancer and also feels guilty for all that her sister has had to go through to help fight the cancer. During the trial , Kate is hospitalized, probably for the last time as she is close to death from kidney failure. Sarah wins her medical emancipation, meaning that her parents can no longer force her to donate any more blood cells, bone marrow ( very painful to donate) and she doesn’t have to donate a kidney if she doesn’t want to. On the way to the hospital to see Kate before she dies, Sarah is in a very severe car accident, and is severely & fatally injured. Her lawyer agrees to donate Sarah’s kidney, because Sarah actually wanted to donate, but Kate convinced her that she didn’t want it, Kate was ready to die. Epilogue, Kate is healthy, finally in remission form the cancer. She says she has no need of pictures or home movies to remember her little sister, all she had to do is feel the scar on her side , where the doctors put Sarah’s kidney to remember her sister
The mother wasn’t really a villain. She was so focused on saving her sick child, that she was blinded to the needs of her other children. Sarah was originally conceived to donate umbilical cord blood, containing stem cells, no affect to Sarah’s wellbeing. But it didn’t cure Kate’s cancer. So more and more was required of Sarah to donate , and a kidney donation would’ve prevented Sarah from living a full life and playing soccer like she loved to do. And what if, one day , Sarah’s remaining kidney should fail? The mom was unintentionally making Sarah feel like all she was worth was her body parts to help her sister. The mom was also neglecting the older brother to the point he was committing acts of vandalism & arson, just to get their mother’s attention
Jodi Picolt, the author, is known for having a final twist that upends the whole narrative of the story. Also for the obvious extensive research that goes into her novels , like savior siblings in this novel. Other research is into bee keeping and husbandry, Amish culture, music therapy, bullying, neurodivergent teens , school shootings, custody battles for embryos, lgbtq rights, racism, transgender teens, a teenager having to decide whether or not to take their brain dead parent off life support , the study of wolves in the wild. She is an excellent storyteller, ironically the title of another of her novels, about Nazi hunting
The movie ending is better. I hate that the healthy child dies so that the sick sister can get her kidney right after she fought so that wouldn’t happen
@@Melanie-jy2nw same I hate the book ending
Here am i think what if it ended differently with a plot twist. Welp im actually glad the movie got a better ending.
I read this book. The mother's mission in life is saving Kate. Anna's wishes or feelings don't matter. The whole family revolves around Kate. I understand having a seriously sick child cannot be easy but you can't sacrifice the rest of your family for the sake of one person. In the book I couldn't stand Sara and I can't stand her in the movie.
This movie is truly sad but there are parents that have actually done this exact thing. Having a child has a human donor for a sibling is deplorable and these parents should be charged with child abuse.
It should be illegal in the first place. The child can’t consent. It’s not in line with the doctor’s role. They’re meant to treat people. Not make kids sick, for another kid’s benefit.
@@KaylaMarie-ox8leA normal child can't consent to being born . What's your take on this ?
@@Excog_ are you anti natalist?
@@KaylaMarie-ox8le I view both situations the same right now. I am considerably young to have a moral dilemma about this, but they definitely seem very similar to me. Right now, I don't plan on giving birth to a child but would be happy to adopt a child when I am suitable for it.
@@Excog_ Parents have an obligation to keep any child they have healthy and whole, not to use that child as a spare parts provider for a sick older sibling.
I've not seen the whole film. Did the mother ever apologize to her daughter for just using her as spare parts?
Nope
No, she's not sorry for what she did
the movie is kinda different from the book tho. So I tend to have a special place for the book version in my heart :'''( I recommend you to read the book, it has so many layers.
You should read the book by Jodie Picoult. It has a crushing twist ending.
You know the mom will be forever bitter that Anna didn’t go along with the plan.
the mother is sickening, a sad excuse for a mother. some people dont deserve children, shes on that list, right up there with people who bring kids to trap houses. loving someone and loving the idea of someone are two entirely different things, the "mother" loved the idea of her daughter, but in reality, her daughter was dying, she was grasping at straws trying to get her ideal daughter back, she loved that ideal daughter, but her daughter, who was dying, she loathed, because she was dying. love your children, no matter what, that doesnt mean enable them, but love them. she realized at the end she was wrong for how she thought, but if this wasnt a movie she would forever hate herself, resent who she was, forever. she came around in the end, but thats too late, her, her living daughter, her husband, her son, they will all remember the worst, because once you see someone at their worst, its hard to see them at their best.
This. The mother does not care about what the sick girl needs she cares more about how the girl's sickness affect her own self
I get Sarah was being mother but she was also a selfish person because of what she put this younger child through. Can we please advocate for her arrest? Did it never occur to this “ lawyer “ that she was committing child endangerment on Anna and never even cared? Take away her license to defend , please
This is a fictional story. These exact people don't exist.
@@junbh2 I understand that but realistically, this girl’s family would have had like 5 calls to CPS by now
@@junbh2 Sadly a lot that case in real life too...
We end up finding out that Anna was fighting for her sister’s wishes- but even if she wasn’t, this never should have happened to Anna. This was so wrong.
Children are NOT property. Solves a lot of issues.
For better or for worse, whatever the circumstances or feeling, the fact is that there’s a very thin line between organ donation and organ harvesting.
I just discovered this movie months ago and it reminds me of my friend's story.
Long story ahead....
She has a younger sister who was always the favorite one. My friend wasn't treated right. They call her "accident" since she was conceived when they were still young and in highschool. They didn't took care of her and was passed around her grandparents who thankfully treated her great. They did that while pursuing their dreams and careers. Living their life as if nothing happened. Her parents somehow still ended up together and got married. They decided that they were finally ready to build their so called family. Instead of catching up with their estranged daughter they had another child. This child according to them was a "dream" and "perfect one". They spoiled her while disregarding my friend. They just took her in when her grandparents passed away, got sick or became to weak to take care of her. She was treated differently. They keep reasoning that she was like a stranger since she doesn't grew with them. I remember that there were times when they had family outings or trips every weekend and most of the time she wans't allowed to join them. They will leave her with her grandma on her apartment for elderly retirees and make an excuse that she misses her grandma that's why she wants to be left or their daughter's friends to arrange a play date andlet her stay with us over the weekend. Even my parents had catched up with it and were weirded out since it became to often. Its not like they didn't have money to take her because as far as I know they were loaded. This unfair treatment made my friend think thay she was adopted or something. So oneday she decided to take a DNA test with both of her parents. And to our suprise she wasn't adopted. They were her real biological parents. Another thing was that they never called her their daughter or any affectionate names like that instead they call her by her name. One day my friend decided to run away from home and stayed with us for a few nights. My parents called her parents the first day she stayed with us but they didn't care. When my dad decided to bring her home since he believes that they need to talk she run away and got lost for almost a month. My parents were the one who reported her missing since she was a minor while her parents were like yeah she was really hard headed and a pain in our butt. She ended up hiding in her grandmas retirement home. She also beg her grandma on mom side and grand dad on her father side to give her directly some inheritance while they were alive so that she could start up on her own. Thankfully they did gave her a good amount of money. She also requested to the court to be free from her parents but of coures they didn't agree since she was a minor. Another problem that she encountered was the social services since they want her to come back to her parents and also when she was leasing house and other documentary stuff like that needs consent from her parents. So she decided to change her guardians from her parents to her grand parent. Her parents delightfully agreed to this. After a few years she was contacted by her parents out of no where. They were apologetic to what they did. They promised to do everything to make up for it. They went out every week and invited her to live with them. But since my friend was one of the nicest people that i met she forgave them easily and was the happiest person during those time. But low and behold they showed their intentions. It turned out that they needed her for their favorite daughter. She had been sick and went various treatment. They did everything and now their last hope is a liver transplant (not fully but a part of it). But the problem was that her type was hard to find and his dad wasn't a complete match while her mother cant go through cause of past health condition. My friend was a perfect match. As time goes by the request became demands and they were pestering her to do it. They eve went on their knees. This made my friend completely heartbroken since she realized that they would do things to that extent for her sister but not even a flinch of hand for her. She was hesitant to do it but because of all the pressure she eventually went with it. But after the operation she completely cuted her ties with them. She changed her name and tried to move away as far from them. But i can see that until that time my friend was still hoping that she would see even the tiniest love or care from them. She was waiting for a call, message or whatsoever from them but no nothing. She cant understand why they were like that to her.
I feel so bad for your friend..
And the worst part is, unlike movies there won't be any real karma..
They'll probably live the rest of their life happily without even an ounce of guilt towards your friend...
Hope she also lives happily away from those brain dead morons..
@@Shreya-dv9ur she's trying her best to live happily as she could be but I can see that she was really struggling. It became hard for her to maintain lasting relationships. She was undergoing therapy for it. But besides that she's doing great and had been close to us her childhood friends as well as our parents. She spends Hollidays and special occasion with our family. And I think there was some kind of karma in her story because her grand parents from both side gave her most of their inheritance and almost left nothing for her parents. They knew how much she needed it so that she could take care of herself. Thankfully her grandparents really loved her. Her parents on the other hand was back in action pestering her about the inheritance. They were guilt tripping and gaslighting her into giving it up. But she learned her lesson and had realized that they don't deserve her or her money.
This movie makes me sick, because there are mothers out there just like this, for real. Ones that put one child over all the others, who are evil to their core and should be stripped of their parental rights, and sterilized.
It's been years since I watched this movie. The parents had the younger daughter to use her bone marrow (to keep the other daughter alive). It was really painful and she was going to keep doing it, but her older sister told her not to. In the movie there is a scene where she is a toddler running away from her parents at the hospital, but they made her do the procedure anyway... Basically the sick sister was the one to protect her little sister (and before that her younger sister was the one keeping her older sister alive for years with bone marrow/etc. She wanted to helped her older sister, but her older sister instead wanted her younger sister to have a real life/not suffer/have a burden. The ending made me sob. (Around 9:00 minutes into the the video is pertinent to the storyline of the movie)
The amount of hate I have for the mom is huge…. The channel does not show one scene where the kid had to donate bone marrow, which is an excruciating painful procedure at a really young age
It’s a mix of emotions. I understand that as a parent, you are willing to do everything to protect your child, but at the same time, asking another child to give up their health? As I said, my emotions are mixed.
I heard a true story where the family had no love for the child born as a donor and treated them badly. They even ran away but a judge decreed, the parents had a right to do with them as they pleased. When they were 18 and could no longer be forced to give them organs, they were thrown into the street and forgotten. I thought they should have been able to sue the parents and judge for causing unneeded suffering.
Is this a real case ? Name, country, state year. Or was it on reddit ?
@@franziskani it's just one of those stories you hear online. Maybe fiction but if so, they should be professional writers. There was so much pain. It's also something that does happen.
It completely ignores the brother became a pyro to get his fathers attention.
Also in the book, Kate survives but the ending is sadder
This story was studied in my daughters nursing school. In the medical ethics class.
The book pissed me off so much, I think I stopped reading it toward the end. I'll have to re-read it.
I love stories filled with moral greys. Its rare for something to be purely evil or purely good
She’s not really her sister. She’s just a being that was created to fix the first born.
They are sisters. It’s the parents who are problematic. The two girls are supportive of one another
It's not right to keep prolonging someone's life like this by taking things from someone else The mother needs severe counseling
This movie hit me so hard when I first saw it. My brother died of medical malpractice. I would have done anything to save him.
Including sacrificing a child's health?
Including having a child so you can harvest it for spare parts?
@EclecticaبلهllyEccentric
@@jonestly943برای عزیزان بله
Its sweet that the younger sister was willing to take on the hate and ridicule to help her sister
let me sum up the moral delima here. ITS CHILD ABUSE. there. done. theres your answer to a complex issue.
As a TATMR fan, erm- when I saw the thumbnail, i was like “Why tf is Mr Conductor in court??? 😭”
That cant be legal!
Sadly it is. No clue why….
@@2bdaqueen268 that is awful! Dont children have a right to bodily autonomy?
@@ankebosing1968 wish they did, but I guess having bodily autonomy doesn’t cover being a glorified organ donor by your parents, but it’s not surprising considering how a lot of the laws protecting children have gotten too lenient lately
I think it, that unless the child says that she Doesn't want the go through with the transplant then really there nothing that can be done. And with gaslighting and emotional manipulation done by some parents the child will just go along with it.
@@ankebosing1968 I’m not sure they even have rights until they are 18
Movie was based on very common scenario. Parents of sick children never able to accept the reality to let go whereas the sick child is more susceptible in accepting the fate. In such dilemmas as human, parents are very much in denial & ignorance in both case of the child in pain in sickness as well as the donor child. Everyone in the situation is in pain emotionally & physically. No one is in blame.
Heartbreaking story 😢
This hit home due to the fact that my 14yr old niece had Leukemia and passed away do to it after going through all the treatments and a slow of other procedures and was in full remission and like 2months later out of nowhere it came back with a vengeance which in turn ended with my Niece succumbing to the disease and passing away . The mother in this movie ( and don't fool yourself that's exactly how this mother is in this film. She did it under the guise of love and caring for her daughter which she undoubtedly did,but also her whole thing of using the other daughter as a spare parts factory is in and of itself twisted and sick. The fact that she "created" this child ,this Human Being with the pure intent as to use her body for parts and whatnot for her daughter with Leukemia. I mean it's not like buying a car to use for spare parts for another car ya know what I mean. I mean would you even build a entire new car,for the sole purpose to be used for parts for another car and altering its parts so they will work with the other car. I mean the thought of someone doing that is frightening. I know it's her child and that she would do anything to save her and to cure her,but at some point as tough and hard to do as it is do you even entertain the idea of doing something like this. All your doing is creating a completely new life a new Human Being a living breathing life that can think and feel and all the things we all can do. But wait you alter her genetics so she most compatible to be used for the sole purpose of keeping your older daughter alive. That is a truly morally and ethically wrong as well as being wrong on so many other levels and the fact that she I'd a doctor makes it somehow worse to me. It's almost like she feels like she can play God,like a God Complex type of thing. Now I know this film evoked from a story of two real sisters one of whom was born with Fanconi Aenim
Isn’t the book the other way around? The healthy kid dies and the sick kid gets all the spare parts she needs and survives?
No, it isn't.
How would the healthy kid die?
@@USA_UNITED1776 in the books, Anna ended up in an accident and Kate lives.
@@allanaalberto9730 that is the worst plot idea I have ever heard.
Yes. Poor Anna is killed in a car accident leaving the court room. Her kidney goes to her sister and Kate gets to live. It was pretty awful.
God the book was terrible I'm so glad the movie went in a different direction
I dont get why the mom didnt realize that when the sick one was saying she was ready to go and the other daughter was begging not to do the surgery that she needed to stop
I remember being at my grandma's place, I was a kid back then, I think I was around either 9 or 10; and I accidentally stumbled upon this movie at night in my bed when I was suppose to be already sleeping, and I watched this movie until the end. This movie stroke me so much that I fell in like a depression-paranoia state where I was so afraid of death and of dying, I even remember going with my dad and grandma to a store and I was so badly stroke by this, that my dad even asked me if I was sick or had fever, which is how bad I looked after this movie. Ah, memories!
i would rather die than let any of my siblings or family donate their organs to me, just let me rest in peace at that point.
Why? It's different with children, but my siblings are adults and very capable of figuring out for themselves what they want to do. I can imagine donating a kidney to save one of them. I would rather have one kidney and my sisters. Organ donation can be a wonderful thing if everyone genuinely wants it.
@@junbh2 i would rather tell them to keep their organs just in case someone in their family needs it, I'm not married so i can donate mine if they need it but my siblings are married and have their own kids.
@@justsayin2085Things like blood, stem cells, bone marrow & pieces of liver can be easily donated without long-term side effects to the donor.
Kidney donors have a harder time recovering, but many would still rather take the time to heal than to lose a loved one.
The issue in the story is that the procedures were many, and the girls could not refuse to donate or receive the donations
Unpopular opinion, but I think sometimes a good story should just be left at it being a good story. It's not legally accurate, medical shows aren't medically accurate, and there are law shows that aren't accurate too. But it has a nice plot, likeable characters, and a nice moral lesson (sometimes). It's okay to just let it be inaccurate. You don't have to complain about all the inaccuracies, because the point is just for it to be a good story.
Edit: grammar
Yes, but a story can have implications beyond the screen.
People vote on their emotions…
The book is as its a true story
@@LadyCheshire95 it's based on a book? Oh cool I didn't know that. What's the book titled?
@@LadyCheshire95 Jodi Picoult wrote a dramatic piece of fiction that was very loosely based on a real family. When I say it was loosely based, I mean that the family really did have a sick child, and that they did end up having a "savior sibling." The family loathes and despises the book and the movie because the implications paint a horrible light on science that helped a lot of families.
@@crystalnash5202 Helped a lot of families, and hurt a lot of others. It's a subject that is controversial for good reason.
I can't believe a country going through an abortion access crisis having such issues understanding a body autonomy issue. Being forced to sacrifice one's health for another? Unheard of.
This is a fictional story
@@PyroGothNerd But the practice exist
This practice is actually illegal
@@avalasialoveIt better be.
This movie could be an hour or two long but this man can explain it in 11 minutes
The scene where the lawyer pulls out a gun and shoots the little girl dead was very disturbing. Then he took the dead girl's family to Denny's for breakfast, to make it up to them? Bizarre.
Imagine being chained up to a hospital trolley as they take you to the OR for your organs to be removed against your will…
I can’t see how any of this would be legal or accepted, nor how they can’t just grow organs if they can genetically modify people
That’s evil & psychotic
When you hate a character, then you know that the actor or the script is damn good
I really hate the Charlie Sheen dog in Foodfight.
@tobbs5410 Unfortunately I don't know either of these names, is it a character or an actor?😅
@@Schwupsdupsbeepboop To be fair, you're probably better off not knowing what either of those things are.
@@tobbs5410 😁
I think this is the first time i ever said this.
The movie was better than the book. I said it, and i dont regret it
In the book, Anna is killed after winning her case, and they take her kidney and give it to her sister. Her sister is cured of Lukemia after being given the kidney. And the family almost forget that Anna existed until the occasional photo they stumble upon of her because she was only born to save her sister.
*hated* the book
I have mixed feelings about this. But I know that if I were in Kate's shoes, I wouldn't want this for Anna and I would want to be let free too. Anna doesn't deserve this and neither does Kate. They both deserve freedom, even if they are different kinds of freedom. In this situation, I think Kate finally found peace.
The mother is definitely terrible tho. I agree that that is illegal and disgusting.
The book was extremely different then the movie especially the ending
SPOILERS
In the ending Anna had won the court case and didn't have to do the kidney transplate she was in the car drivinf with the lawyer when they got into an accident the lawyer survived but Anna ended up brain dead her parents then do the kidney transplate which allows Kate to live
I’m a man now but when I first seen this movie it changed me. I’m a grown ass man and I will watch this movie in private cuz I still cry!
What's more amazing is the fact that the little sister still able to love her mother regardless of the treatment she received
For all the people wondering about that, this is obviously illegal.
And that makes sense, as no matter how you put it, it is morally wrong.
In some comment, people say that it is legal in the UK, but what is legal in the UK is to genetically create an embryo without the genetic disease, and use the steem cells of the umbillical chord as treatment. That is still a moral dilemma, regarding wether the new born will be treated with the respect and love that it deserves, and not as an extension of the sibling, but it is NOTHING like the film.
Like the film the child doesn't need a lawyer. All it takes is for her to say no, since all individuals have bodily autonomy.
Morals and the laws have zero to do with each other.
The law is about the law.
Morals comes from a higher platform.
This is truly sickening.
Imagine fighting in court in an attempt to force your child to get gutted to keep your greed alive.
I can understand the mom's will to fight for her daughter. But genetically engineering children to be used as spare parts is just cold and heartless.