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  • Essay / Ethics of savior brothers and sisters - 1021

    The savior child will also be free from the illness from which the existing child suffers; this may mean that the savior child may have a better quality of life than if he or she suffered from the disease. With the positives and negatives, some may view “savior siblings” as a cruel process for the savior child. The child may grow up with the feeling that he was not born for himself, that he is unwanted, or that he was born only to serve as "spare parts" for his brother or to his sister. Another ethical debate might be the ability to give informed consent. It can be argued that a child cannot be fully aware of what is happening until they reach a certain age (in South Australia the age of medical consent is 16) and therefore cannot not express fully informed consent to medical procedures until age 16 (MIGA, 2011). In any medical procedure, the patient must be informed of the possible risks and complications that may arise during the procedure and must be able to understand these risks and possible complications..