JD Vance Said We Just Need To Reframe The Idea Of Forcing Women To Stay Pregnant

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39. There is the "Sister's Keeper" argument

There have been a case or two where a child was deliberately conceived to be an organ donor for a sibling for whom no donor was available; this was fictionalized in the book and movie where the donor child sues in her late pre-teens to emancipate herself and take control of the medical juggernaut that has been railroading her toward donating her designer organs to save her sister's life. The story is neatly wrapped up when the donor wins her court case but then dies of other causes, becoming a donor more conventionally, and I don't believe the legal question of whether such a child actually owns her own organs has ever really been definitely answered in court. So while it seems like a cut and dried question whether you have final ownership over your own organs, there are circumstances where even ordinary people might be tempted to make an exception if your attitude toward a purpose is insufficiently noble. Do we really believe that the bodily autonomy of a child is as important as a decade of medical prep, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and the life she was created to save when she wouldn't even exist if she hadn't been deliberately created to serve this purpose? And if the answer is "no," that is one damn slippery slope we've just taken a step on.