• Title/Summary/Keyword: the right to decide on her body

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Designer Baby Anna: Finding Right to the Body - Focused on Jodie Picoult's 『My Sister's Keeper』 - (맞춤형 아기 안나: 신체에 대한 권리를 찾아서 - 조디 피코의 『마이 시스터즈 키퍼』를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Myung-kyun;Kim, Dong-giun
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.171-181
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    • 2019
  • In this article, we examined designer babies and bioethics, and we reviewed how Anna argued that she had the rights to her body through trial with parents. No matter what purpose a cloned human or designer baby was born with, it is worth being respected as the birth itself. After learning the secrets of his birth in Jodie Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, which is based on a designer baby, Anna falls into confusion of identity and sues parents who decide to transplant organs regardless of Anna's will. Anna argues that she has the right to make decisions about her own body and that even her parents can't disregard her opinions. Scientists should stop their research if using biotechnology to reproduce humans, such as designer babies and cloned humans, can destroy the natural order.