Dilemma Friday: Would You Have A Child To Save Her?
Friday, October 23, 2009Posted in: Dilemma of the week
This fantastic Dilemma Friday comes courtesy of regular KKB reader Anon76, so thanks very much.
This week’s dilemma is as follows:
You and your husband have a beautiful little girl (let’s call her Megan). When she’s five years old, you discover that she’s developed Leukemia. You go to see all the specialists that you can, and they inform you that in order to keep her alive, she’s going to need constant blood transfusions, and various organs will have to be replaced throughout her probably short life.
You learn that one way of ensuring that Megan has a genetic match for the organs that she needs, is to have a another child.
What do you do? Do you engineer a child specially to save the child that you already have, or do you just keep up with the various treatments and pray for a miracle for Megan?
What would you do?
By the way, anybody interested in submitting a Dilemma Friday post, can do so by emailing me at hairylemony @ gmail. com (no spaces). I’ll be happy to post the decent ones on here over the next few Fridays.