Ariana Jumper: My Sister's Keeper 11/14/09

I watched the movie, My Sister's Keeper and feel that it has a religious component. If you don't know, the movie is about a young girl suing her parents for medical emancipation of her body. The middle child, her sister, has cancer. The young girl was created by her parents to be a donor for her sister. Since she was an infant, she had been donating parts of her body to keep her sister alive.
Going into the movie, I didn’t know what it was about. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie, I became infuriated. I could not believe that someone could create a child just to carve him or her apart. And the fact that the doctor suggested this “off the record” made me even angrier. I have been raised to view the creation of life as a holy act. How can it be anything but holy? With all the things that can go wrong, some divine force must be intervening to ensure the proper development of the fetus. When a child is created for some other purpose than for the love of that child, the holy act of creating that child is eliminated. Making a child to be a donor child takes the act of creation from holy to profane.