I cannot stand it when people try to guilt trip others for selfish reasons. It's very easy for Sarah to point the finger when she's not the one being poked, proded, and cut open.
My mother would never guilt trip me or force me but if my sister needed a donor or help yeah I would because I choose to and I would die to save anyone in my family because I choose to.
What an awful thing to say to your child. Asking her why she won't help her sister. It's the kind of question pointed to invoke a sense of guilt on Anna's part, when she should not feel guilty.
It is awful, but Sara doesn't care that it's awful. If guilting Anna is the way to keep her favorite child alive, even when Kate herself doesn't want that, Sara will do it. And she probably deludes herself into thinking she's doing all this for Kate's sake, and maybe at first she was, but now it's gotten to the point that she's doing it for her own sake, to spare herself the pain of losing her daughter.
I hate when adults says that kids don't know what they want. Edit: I mean in context of the scenario in the film, where the mother tries to force her daughter to donate her kidney. It is unethical. Many medical professionals will not agree to such a procedure against the patient will, even though the patient is a child. We actually see in the film a doctor refusing to do the surgery, because it is unethical when the patient isn't compliant. It is heartbreaking to see someone go through cancer, especially a child. But that still doesn't make it morally and ethically right to force someone into donating an organ.
Daisie Jensen Well I have to agree with you on some situations but it's been proven that kids' minds can be very malleable to the world around them and their decision making part of their brain hasn't fully developed.
Tasha Macie I know, but in her age when she says no to a donor she would know it's a big deal. She said that she knew if she didn't do it her sister would die.
to be a judge in the U.S. you basically have to relinquish any sense of morality, because you would be required to serve as an instrument of mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex, militarized law enforcement, etc.
People forget about the huge plot point of the film that she’s literally a donor baby, a baby they artificially inseminated, for the sole purpose of cutting her open and taking her spare parts, it’s fucking horrific, this film and novel fucking kill me beyond words the thought of a child having to go through something like this for the right to say no to a controlling parent
Funny how the mum says she’s an 11 year old girl and she doesn’t know what she wants, and then claims that she always knew and understood and agreed to everything that happened to her...
"Funny" thing: The fact that an eleven year old really CAN'T make such a choice is one of the many reasons why in my country a living kid "donating" an organ is completely illegal. From an 11year old even taking blood or bone marrow is legally impossible, organs like a kidney.. that isn't even up for discussion.
Yeah, right. If Sara was a caring mother, she would've understood how much Anna and Kate were suffering and stopped a long time ago. Everything she done, was for herself and her ego.
@@ladyfire44 she thought she was keeping her family together when really she was tearing them apart and making everything worse. Plus making everyone suffer, especially Anna and Kate most of all
Can we just talk about how Anna's entire demeanor changes when she states why she went to the lawyer? She was all fangirly at first, but then her face completely changed.
She became serious when Campbell told her to state her reason why she came to his office. That's when Anna told him all about her being forced to do surgery after surgery as Kate's genetic match as a donor by Sara. She wanted to sue for medical emancipation not only for her rights to live and to her own body, but also Kate's wishes for death.
Brian finally stood up to Sara in the movie when Jesse called her out for how she's treated him, Anna and especially Kate. He even pointed out that she stopped listening to their family when she tried to push for the surgery and deliberately ignored Kate's wishes for death.
As harsh as this sounds. I'm afraid the kid the mother was caring for was already dead weight. But if one family member is dying, there is no need to make the whole family suffer further.
@@foolslayer9416 It is not harsh. By that time any doctor she had asked would have told her already that it may be possible to prolong Kate's life, but that healing her was not even in the cards. And had she ever asked Kate.. she would also haven gotten the answer that the "quality of life" that is possible is not even next to enough. Not enough for her to want to live with that, And for sure not enough to want them to take organs from her sister that will effect her health as well and put her at risk. Has reasons while the whole procedure from "creating" a donor sibling to using it is illegal in my country.
I knew these twins in a similar situation. One needed a kidney and the other was a viable donor. She wanted to, she wanted to give her kidney to her sister. However their parents put so much pressure on her telling her to do it that she got scared and backed out. She later changed her mind again saying she would do the surgery but their parents weren't aloud to talk about it in their house. Both twins are alive today and in great shape.
At end of the film/book Anna dies in a car crash in a car she was in with Mr Campbell. As a result, we can assume that Kate died eventually. But I can't remember if Anna and her mom make up afterwards or not.
Eleanor Munt After the car crash, Campbell who now controls Anna's health decisions is told that her liver is good for transplant. As a result of the crash, Anna is on life support but Campbell decides to give her kidney to Kate because Anna will die of her injuries anyway.
In the book, Anna died in the car crash and only kept alive by life support. Campbell honored her last wish to give the kidney to Kate. She explained in her POV that she nearly relapsed until her body accepted the kidney. While the doctors believed the surgery was successful, Kate knew better and that Anna died in her place so she can live. She mentioned that it was her sister's death brought new meaning to the family and the one which Sara felt insurmountable guilt for. In the film, after Kate dies, Anna and Sara did reconcile. She admitted she was proud of Anna for standing up for herself.
Anna wasn't the only one who had to pay for Sara's neglect, Jesse too. She was too focused on keeping Kate alive that she didn't realize that her neglect played a role into his juvenile delinquency nor how much Anna secretly resented her for how she treated them over the years. Kate knew this to well because even she resented Sara for what she's done to Anna and Jesse over the years
i read the books and its more brutal; jesse in the books developed pyromania due to the neglect and to catch his dad's attention (since he was a firefighter and the one putting down his fires). also, there's a scene where ana describes the family's living room and notices that there's mostly pictures of jesse and kate as children and like two of her. or one where sarah remembers how she would get mad at ana for being childish and crying on the way to the hospital only to remember that ana was 5 in that situation the books are more brutal when talking about the neglect the two other kids were put on for kate's illness, that is what makes the book's ending (way different than the one in the movie) sadder.
@@claudia711 i loved how the author made part of the book from Sarah's perspective to "redeem" her when it had the opposite effect, making her seem even more insane and heartless since she actually loved Ana and somewhat realised using her like that is wrong yet kept pushing Ana anyway
@@ladyfire44 Jesse bringing Kate to their mother at the hospital and thinking "how could i've thought i can save her when i can't even save myself" genuenly made me cry. His interraction with Kate seemed so detached, like he was a stranger who found her daughter passed out on the street not her oldest child who is living in her backyard. He obviously had self esteem issues because of the way he was brought up and he had noone to fight for him. Poor Jesse
How can a parent force their kid donate their body parts to their siblings? If I were a parent, the thought of sabotaging my child's health to save another one of my children wouldn't even cross my mind.
Who would create another child just to utilize them as spare parts for the sick one has no heart. Yes, I get that one child is sick, but to create another one so that first one can be well is wrong. Just admit that there's a losing battle and that death is inevitable. You take care of the sick child and if you just happen to have another child that's a perfect match is very fortunate.
And trying to sway the legal system too. This is an example of the principles of science being abused without regard for ethics or human life. Horrible on so many levels.
This reminds me of a scene from an episode of ER. There was a woman who was in kidney failure, who would die without one. They found a match, who was her younger sister, of whom she had kicked out of the house years earlier. They found the sister and asked her about donating. Her response? "Let the bitch die..."
@@awesomecoolmanepic996 parents died and she was left to take care of her younger sister. She accepted the responsibility and then kicked out her 15 year old sister. Sister had to move in with friends. She was in her senior year, about to go to college on a basketball scholarship when they found her. A kidney transplant would end her chances of playing basketball. She didn't owe her older sister (who abandoned her) a damn thing. 🤨🖕
In Australia, this scenario actually played out for real. A couple had a baby knowing full well it had a 50% chance of developing the lethal genetic disorder in their bloodline. They had a girl to harvest bone marrow from - despite the fact that it was not guaranteed that she would even be a match.
The one I read about was about a girl whose parents had a genetically modified baby boy to help her survive. It didn’t sound like that child went through as many procedures as Anna had to go through, though.
The eugenicists of the 20th century demonstrated that sterilizing people is not the way to go selective abortion and IVF processes are still viable methods though
When I was in middleschool I had a classmate who had merely been born, so her older brother could receive bone marrow. She had been poked and probed her whole life. She was so bitter and angry... And who could blame her?
I haven't actually watched the movie but it seems extremely different to the book. In the book, Anna didn't want to give her kidney and Kate supported her, in the movie it seems Anna was okay with it which kind of defeated the point of the story, Not only that, Anna died in a car crash at the end of the book which doesn't seem to have occurred here. Huh.
I saw the movie before reading the book. And while I still enjoy the movie, I have to admit that I’ve had a hard time looking at it the same since I’ve read the book. I have to admit, though, that I didn’t really understand why Anna have to die in the book. At least, with the movie, you could see that Kate was getting weaker and you were left wandering if she would’ve survived even if the surgery went ahead.
Even in the film, Anna told Sara off that she refused to do the surgery anymore and she's important as well. Like in the book version, she was tired of missing out on her life and being in the hospital each time Kate relapsed. The only reason she held back from rebelling against Sara was because of her sister. It was Kate who convinced Anna to stop putting up with it, take control of her own life and fight for her rights to her body.
Personally i like the ending to the movie WAAAAY better. Ana dying right after she got the rights to her own body only for those rights to be completly ignored anyway after she died makes the whole action in thd book pointless.
Not true. Campbell did honor Anna's last wish before she died: to do the surgery and give Kate her kidney. He had medical POA, not Brian and Sara. In the book's epilogue, Kate almost relapsed again until her body accepted the kidney. While the doctors assumed the surgery was a success, she knew differently why she survived. Kate believed that Anna died in her place so she can live. It was her death that brought new perspective to the family. Even though Sara got what she wanted and Kate survived, she got her karma in the end. She continued living with insurmountable guilt over how she treated Anna all her life as spare body parts by emotionally and mentally abusing her. Sara never realized how important she was to their family until after her death and it took her years to get over it.
How is she? Yes she has done it wrong but could you let any of your children die? I would never hurt my children but I would do anything to save my daughters
@@Hayden-my6cuno, it's really not. She's using her own daughter as spare parts for her favorite child. Anna could die for all she cares and she's okay with that as long as Kate lives.
I first saw this in California with my sisters a long-ish time ago (we were all teens); all 3 of us left the theater with tears, them more than me. Now, as a 37 year old preparing for a Psychology research career (MS and PhD in the future, the latter hopefully), I see the ethical issues and questions in abundance surrounding this film, its story and everyone involved
The mom is a straight up monster. She only sees her daughter as a walking talking bag of spare parts to be used whenever her favorite child needs new ones. Then she gets emotionally & physically (she slapped her) when she *gasp* says she doesn't wanna loose any more body parts.
If I were Anna, even if Kate did not ask me to do so, I would have sued them both anyway. I absolutely hate it when people say you should sacrifice for your family no matter what. So if Anna sacrifice her health, her entire life then who will be her substitute then? Being related by blood is never the excuse for hurting someone
Exactly, and noone brought up another question, Kate's organs were failing one by one, what would happen when her heart would go? Would Anna have to donate that too? Really show her how little she means to her own family? Or even worse Kate would die and all Anna sacrificed for her sister would havw gone to waste
When Anna said: "Kill me or release me parasite, but do not waste my time" I felt that deeply. I also loved at the end after her sister's death when she said: "were it so easy"
Everybody. Put yourself in their shoes. Is all Happened to me. My sister got cancer and she needed a kidney. My mom kept telling me to give her mine. I didn't want to. My mom told me 'if she does pass after we give her the kidney at least we have the honor of saying we tried' I gave her my kidney. Unfortunately she passed but she was at home with her family. We were just like them in the movie. Except unconditionally I was raised to give to my family and the ones I love.
MegaSheen15 no. I only have one kidney. But I'm healthy and take care of myself. Later on in the future tho someone will have to give me a kidney. It's okay to be curios
she's been having surgery since she was 3 months old so....giving ONE thing is one thing but bone marrow blood body parts since birth is sick for parents to make a new born or any child do
Daisy Dilemma I don't have children and don't ever plan to, but here's my opinion: my parents went through a similar situation with me. I was incredibly sick when I was born and nearly died. My mother already had my two older half-brothers with my grandparents and they had to keep going back and forth from her parents to the hospital (it was a 90 minute drive one way). I'm not saying my situation is like Kate's, I'm just saying that when you have a sick child everything else just fades away. It's not intentional, your mind is just focused on keeping the sick child alive. There is no right or wrong choice in this situation you can't simply force one child to risk their life to save the other, but you can't just sit back and watch your child die either.
Layla Cacaface Your missing a important part of the issue the fact that your kidney was a match for your sister was determined by the grace of God. Anna's wasn't her parents conceived her to save her sister Anna's saying no because she wants to exceed the expectations to which she was born if she was born naturally like you and just happened to be compatible with her sister I would completely agree with you but this goes beyond just being a generous person.
I REMEMBER DOING SUMMER HW FOR FRESHMEN YEAR ON THIS AND THIS BOOK IS REALLY SAD AND CUTS YOU OPEN. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE FACED AN ULTIMATUM TO DEPART YOUR CHILD.
I think the phrase 'Kids don't know what they want.' is worded wrong. It's more about 'Kids may know what they want, but they may not want that later. As adults they may regret their choices.'
This mother is horrible. That’s your daughter, not a collection of spare parts. And while some of the procedures were non-invasive (like harvesting the umbilical cord) or didn’t have long-term effects, removing a kidney is not nothing and comes with risks. The idea that a child can forcibly have an organ removed is absolutely repulsive.
One thing I never understood. Call me dumb because I'm not good at medicine or biology...but if Sara wants Kate to live soo much, instead of abusing Anna for giving her kidney, why won't Sara give her own kidney...is it because of age?
It has to be a match so the receiver's body won't reject it, and Anna was conceived to be a perfect match for her sister to be the perfect donnor when she needed one, if I recall correctly
She had to be a genetic match. Unfortunately, Sara wasn't one and she had planned to use Jesse to be the donor sibling. However aside being a blood match, he too wasn't viable as well. Thus, Brian and Sara conceived Anna through in-vitro to be a donor sibling match for Kate.
Sometimes the best thing is just to let the people who are suffering go, it is selfish to want to force them to fight so we dont have to live on with the loss.
A lot of you guys just thought you saw a mom guilt tripping a daughter who wants to protect her own body the movie makes it seem that way at first. The mom knew she wasnt telling her the real reason why she wouldnt donate this is what drove her mad and made her act controlling. Once the mom realized the real reason ,she then got mad at the cancer daughter instead of the healthy daughter and stopped arguing and demanding. The healthy daughter refused to donate mainly because the cancer sister had asked her to let her die and help end her suffering by refusing to donate every time mom asked her too. That was the main reason the healthy daughter sued.
I’m not a lawyer but I feel like the last question of “you live your sister why won’t your help her” is a form of leading the witness no? Is there ground for objection here?
Yes it is a leading question and Alec Baldwin’s character should've objected at that moment. Asking “Why wont you help her?” is kinda putting words in Anna’s mouth. Especially if The Mom is looking for a specific response.
Kate was the main reason that Anna sued for medical emancipation in the first place. She saw how much the family was suffering under Sara and she was already at the point where she stopped listening to everyone around her.
“..really hoping to keep her out of it.” This woman knows, beyond a shadow of any doubt, that her argument is a sturdy as wet cardboard. But can we acknowledge one simple detail: no one can be forced, legally, to take part in any kind of medical procedure against their will. At least not since the days of Tuskegee and Mengele. (And yes, that was a House, M.D.).
I know we don't fully know what happened to the family long term after all the decisions were made, but I would not blame Jesse and Anna if they slowly severed ties with their mother as they became adults for all the psychological and physical abuse she put them through while she was still supposed to be raising them as well as Kate. If most of what you give someone is belligerence in the face of tragedy, how are they going to trust you enough in the future to so much as avoid finger pointing? You sow blame, you reap blame.
It’s one of those moral dilemmas. Do you make both children live half a life? Or do you allowed one child to die and the other to live a full life? Me personally, I would never be able to compromise the health of one for the other.
Even worse is there's no guarantee the latter will live a full life. It might extend her life, but given her condition it's not likely to extend that long
What an awful parent! She’s not even treating her daughter like a human being, but a donation item. And what’s worse, she guilts her into saving a sick child that’s wants to and is ready to die. Even if it means putting her other daughter in a seriously messed up condition that makes her not capable of living a good life for herself. What kind of sick twisted person does this to people!?
I get trying to save your child. It's heart-rending and a desperate situation. But disabling your healthy child? Because that's what is happening here. To take away the guilt, it's easier to see the healthy child as parts. To forget that there are 2 people, not just 1 and spare parts. Then guilt trip like that? That's not right. It's a sad, twisted, but it's not right to drive your 11 yr old to taking this kind of action.
To keep one daughter from being buries in the ground she’ll put another one there instead, there’s only so much you can give until your body can’t anymore, what’s the mom gonna do then
Not only that, Anna also wanted rights to her body and live. In the novel's ending, she admitted to Campbell that she wants to give the kidney to Kate, but she also wanted it to be on her terms and not her mom's.
4:22 immediate motion for dismissing and striking that question from the record. The absolute LEAST BAD thing you could call this is a leading question. You COULD make an argument that this is not just a leading question, considering the relationship between the defendant, plaintiff and the interrogator, but an attempt to tamper with witnesses. Alexander is a bad lawyer, that judge is basically braindead and the mother is a caricature. This is a bad movie.
I thibk her sister just wants everything to end and pass away peacefully. Since what she has is terminal and is causing her so much pain and torture. Her sister who gives evrryhting to her did not wnat to give anything else. Probably for her own sake, as she wnats to live her own life having the least amount of problems. And not having an arm missing or a kidney missing. Amd also because she just wnats to give her sister that relief that they can relax and never have to go through that again.
What makes no sense is Sarah herself admitted that kids can make medical decisions for themselves at 14. Kate is 14 or 15, which means she can decide to end things and her parents can't interfere. This whole debacle could of been avoided if Kate told her parents and the doctors 'I don't want to fight anymore. I want to pass peacefully'. And the doctors and parents would have no choice but to accept it.
This is not the entire movie. It's like a cheat for someone who needs to do a book report, or for someone without time to watch it in it's entirety. It does, however maintain the spirit of the movie.
No offense but Sarah Fitzgerald was a very cold-hearted, ignorant mother in this film!! No wonder why she and her husband hated Anna so much! It really breaks my heart how they treated their youngest child in this film! 😢😢 All they cared about was Kate and how they forced her to give her body parts when she was just a baby!! The parents in this film should’ve been sentenced to life in prison by this judge!!
I don't think so. During Campbell's cross examination of Brian, he admitted they only had Anna to be Kate's savior sibling and a genetic match. They only started off giving up the cord blood from her umbilical cord and bone marrow treatment. This temporarily kept Kate in remission and allowed them to raise Anna properly. Things got worse when she relapsed again. This time, the doctors had to get stem cells from Anna at age 5 to keep Kate alive. He and Jesse were the only ones who visited her, while Sara didn't bother to do so and only saw their youngest as spare body parts. Once Brian learned how much Kate wanted to die so badly, he understood how this was affecting their family negatively. At some point, he wanted to stop the treatment and mentioned he tried talking Sara out of it several times. Even the doctors suggested she let Kate die in peace and stop treatment. Unfortunately, Sara refused to listen to anyone when they called her out for her selfishness. She didn't want to stop and was willing to sacrifice Anna's life just to keep Kate alive. During Sara and Jesse's argument, Brian called Sara out again. He points out that Kate told everyone in the family countless of times that she was ready to die and wanted to stop the surgeries. Sara refused to listen and gave in to her insanity. Brian can no longer support such behavior and refused to put Anna through this again. That's when Sara stopped being selfish and started understanding why her family felt the way they did. At some point, she stopped listening to everyone around her when they told her to let Kate go. I get she wanted to be like those parents whose children survived against all odds and are living their best lives. However, where Sara failed to understand, was that it wasn't her decision to make. It was Kate's decision to stop treatment and die.
If they were talking about sex (adult content in the media, sex ed, youth's view of sex, etc...) and not health everyone would side with the parents and say: "Kids dunno what they want."
the difference is whenever making a decision for your child it has to be SOLELY FOR THEIR WELL BEING not the well being of another, life or death circumstances be damned.
The only question Alec Baldwin needed to ask was “did you have your second daughter after a doctor said they could make a daughter that’s a perfect match for organ donation.” They didn’t have a kid because they wanted another daughter they wanted an organ donor and a doctor said this was the best way.
I get that the mom is in a horrible position she has a sick child she wants to help and that’s really understandable but how she went about it isn’t. She never listened to the younger child she treated her well and loved her most of the time but come time to take parts she was brutal going in and getting what was needed she stopped listening to the older daughter when she told her what she wanted and she was single minded in her determination to just keep her alive. I also blame the dad cause he knew how the older daughter felt and he never stuck up for Anna he never defended her or took her side so he is just as bad
He did stand up to Sara a few times in the movie. 1. At the dinner scene after Anna was slapped by Sara for wanting to sue for medical emancipation, Brian yelled at her for what she's done after Jesse did. 2. He testified against Sara when Campbell was cross examining him and he admitted they only had Anna to be Kate's savior sibling. At some point, Brian wanted to stop with the forced surgeries because he saw how this was affecting their family in a negative manner. He mentioned he tried talking Sara out of it several times and even the doctors suggested she let Kate die in peace. Unfortunately, she refused to listen to anyone when they called her out for her selfishness. Sara didn't want to stop and was willing to sacrifice Anna's life just to keep Kate alive. 3. During Sara and Jesse's argument, Brian called Sara out again. He points out that Kate told everyone in the family countless of times that she was ready to die and wanted to stop the surgeries. Sara refused to listen and gave in to her insanity. Brian can no longer support such behavior and refused to put Anna through this again. That's when Sara stopped being selfish and started understanding why her family felt the way they did. At some point, she stopped listening to everyone around her when they told her to let Kate go. I get she wanted to be like those parents whose children survived against all odds and are living their best lives. However, where Sara failed to understand, was that it wasn't her decision to make. It was Kate's decision to stop treatment and die.
I understand its for her students but cant she think for herself like for example she wants to go in active sports now she cant because of tons of surgeries she cant keep sacrificing her organs
Low key wondering where an 11 year old got $700. plus parents have to have known something more was up. Like how did Anna get to the lawyer's office? Are 11 year olds that unsupervised in the USA if not then someone must have gone with her- mother should have looked into that
@@NahtsWorld i did watch the movie like decade ago and i know what happens but at no point in the movie does it show how Anna got to the Lawyer Plus im not american and have no idea how thing work there
I'm sorry I hated Cameron Diaz's character in this movie. This was not good parenting. At some point you have to ask Sarah, what she wants. At a certain point the quality of life comes into play here. And if my sister needed one of my kidney's absolutely I would give her one, but there are factors at play here. I can live with out my kidney, I can't live without my sister, and I knew that the quality of life for my sister would be better than the alternative dying. In this movie, with this situation there were other factors. Sarah has been sick most of her life. She has lived longer sick than she has healthy. At a certain point that is debilitating, knowing you are not the best version of yourself and the people who you care about are suffering and becoming numb to the pain of others, because Sarah's pain is all encompassing. At a certain point it is Sarah's call. Ana wasn't just fighting for herself, she was fighting for her sister's right to choose. Sarah realized that she lost her voice when it came to her mother, because she blocked everything out in the world and Sarah knew that. Ana knew that she was a designer baby. When the doctor told her of the procedure, which he shouldn't have, Ana knew that her opinion didn't hold any weight to her mother. She had two other kids and a husband, completely unaware of how her neglect and unintentional (and sometimes intentional) emotional abuse was affecting them. Sarah saw all of this and tried to tell her mom and she wouldn't listen.
“Doesn’t know what she wants”
ITS HER KIDNEY IM PRETTY SURE SHE WANTS THAT
I don't know why but that really made me laugh lol
No shit. She kind of needs it to live and whatnot.
boysponge705 well technically she only needs one to live
@@alessandragallucci7912 true. The second one is still useful.
I'm pretty sure any kid with common sense knows they don't want body pieces cut out of them
I cannot stand it when people try to guilt trip others for selfish reasons. It's very easy for Sarah to point the finger when she's not the one being poked, proded, and cut open.
Also,Sarah was born...Just to be born. Anna was born solely so that Sarah could provide Kate a donor because her son couldn't.
The real question is : Who stands up for Anna? Nothing further your honor. 🙄🤔🤔🤔🙄🤔
@@Valencia77 Idk why you need to roll your eyes at that but okay
What Sara is saying is so manipulative
My mother would never guilt trip me or force me but if my sister needed a donor or help yeah I would because I choose to and I would die to save anyone in my family because I choose to.
What an awful thing to say to your child. Asking her why she won't help her sister. It's the kind of question pointed to invoke a sense of guilt on Anna's part, when she should not feel guilty.
that mom is emotionally abusive at the point , id call cps a long time ago.... using your kid as a tool box... what a bitch, not fit to be mom
@@martinathom5167 I agree with you she's also a sick women and she acts like a real half psychopath
That's a low blow.
It's bedt if you don't read the book
It is awful, but Sara doesn't care that it's awful. If guilting Anna is the way to keep her favorite child alive, even when Kate herself doesn't want that, Sara will do it. And she probably deludes herself into thinking she's doing all this for Kate's sake, and maybe at first she was, but now it's gotten to the point that she's doing it for her own sake, to spare herself the pain of losing her daughter.
I hate when adults says that kids don't know what they want.
Edit: I mean in context of the scenario in the film, where the mother tries to force her daughter to donate her kidney. It is unethical. Many medical professionals will not agree to such a procedure against the patient will, even though the patient is a child. We actually see in the film a doctor refusing to do the surgery, because it is unethical when the patient isn't compliant.
It is heartbreaking to see someone go through cancer, especially a child. But that still doesn't make it morally and ethically right to force someone into donating an organ.
Daisie Jensen Well I have to agree with you on some situations but it's been proven that kids' minds can be very malleable to the world around them and their decision making part of their brain hasn't fully developed.
Tasha Macie I know, but in her age when she says no to a donor she would know it's a big deal. She said that she knew if she didn't do it her sister would die.
Daisie Jensen Bro I totally agree with you she's totally in the right for not wanting to be a walking organ donation.
That girl is way too young to be a damn organ donater. Hello mom! She ain't dead yet dipshit!
Ivy Oyesile You weren’t Born to be spare parts, were you?
the fact that the mom keeps saying that there's no legal basis for medical emancipation just asserts how morally unconscionable this is
Well, Sara was trying to keep control over Anna. This was something even Brian, Jesse and especially Kate were fed up with.
to be a judge in the U.S. you basically have to relinquish any sense of morality, because you would be required to serve as an instrument of mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex, militarized law enforcement, etc.
Is that still legal in the USA?
People forget about the huge plot point of the film that she’s literally a donor baby, a baby they artificially inseminated, for the sole purpose of cutting her open and taking her spare parts, it’s fucking horrific, this film and novel fucking kill me beyond words the thought of a child having to go through something like this for the right to say no to a controlling parent
Funny how the mum says she’s an 11 year old girl and she doesn’t know what she wants, and then claims that she always knew and understood and agreed to everything that happened to her...
It’s called lying.
Liars do that.
They lie like a rug.
Honestly someone needs to tell Sarah that she's a terrible mother
"Funny" thing:
The fact that an eleven year old really CAN'T make such a choice is one of the many reasons why in my country a living kid "donating" an organ is completely illegal.
From an 11year old even taking blood or bone marrow is legally impossible, organs like a kidney.. that isn't even up for discussion.
Selfish woman! She wasn't thinking of Anna, or Jesse. She wasn't even thinking of Kate. All she wanted was her way.
A caring selfish woman lol
@@Tradetek1 yeah yeah yeah “caring” yeah ok alright
Yeah, right. If Sara was a caring mother, she would've understood how much Anna and Kate were suffering and stopped a long time ago. Everything she done, was for herself and her ego.
@@ladyfire44 she thought she was keeping her family together when really she was tearing them apart and making everything worse. Plus making everyone suffer, especially Anna and Kate most of all
Yup she is more concerned with how she feels and not how they feel, the line "it's not as awful as putting your child in the ground " proves this
Can we just talk about how Anna's entire demeanor changes when she states why she went to the lawyer? She was all fangirly at first, but then her face completely changed.
She became serious when Campbell told her to state her reason why she came to his office. That's when Anna told him all about her being forced to do surgery after surgery as Kate's genetic match as a donor by Sara. She wanted to sue for medical emancipation not only for her rights to live and to her own body, but also Kate's wishes for death.
" Who stands up for Anna ? " in that moment I cried
Who stands up for Anna? Kate does since neither Sara or Brian are doing it.
Brian finally stood up to Sara in the movie when Jesse called her out for how she's treated him, Anna and especially Kate. He even pointed out that she stopped listening to their family when she tried to push for the surgery and deliberately ignored Kate's wishes for death.
As harsh as this sounds. I'm afraid the kid the mother was caring for was already dead weight. But if one family member is dying, there is no need to make the whole family suffer further.
@@foolslayer9416 It's not harsh when the dead weight in question pretty much agrees with that assessment.
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It is not harsh.
By that time any doctor she had asked would have told her already that it may be possible to prolong Kate's life, but that healing her was not even in the cards.
And had she ever asked Kate.. she would also haven gotten the answer that the "quality of life" that is possible is not even next to enough.
Not enough for her to want to live with that,
And for sure not enough to want them to take organs from her sister that will effect her health as well and put her at risk.
Has reasons while the whole procedure from "creating" a donor sibling to using it is illegal in my country.
Anna dies in the book too it's even worse
I knew these twins in a similar situation. One needed a kidney and the other was a viable donor. She wanted to, she wanted to give her kidney to her sister. However their parents put so much pressure on her telling her to do it that she got scared and backed out. She later changed her mind again saying she would do the surgery but their parents weren't aloud to talk about it in their house. Both twins are alive today and in great shape.
Gurgle What bad parents.
I know at the end of the film they both get along. I don't think I'd be able to respect a woman like that much less call her mom.
Sarah Burke creating donor babies should be considered child abuse
At end of the film/book Anna dies in a car crash in a car she was in with Mr Campbell. As a result, we can assume that Kate died eventually. But I can't remember if Anna and her mom make up afterwards or not.
Eleanor Munt
After the car crash, Campbell who now controls Anna's health decisions is told that her liver is good for transplant. As a result of the crash, Anna is on life support but Campbell decides to give her kidney to Kate because Anna will die of her injuries anyway.
me either she is ruthless and predatory in my view the end justify the means poor Anna is was Sarah's 1 stop chop shop
In the book, Anna died in the car crash and only kept alive by life support. Campbell honored her last wish to give the kidney to Kate. She explained in her POV that she nearly relapsed until her body accepted the kidney. While the doctors believed the surgery was successful, Kate knew better and that Anna died in her place so she can live. She mentioned that it was her sister's death brought new meaning to the family and the one which Sara felt insurmountable guilt for. In the film, after Kate dies, Anna and Sara did reconcile. She admitted she was proud of Anna for standing up for herself.
If I was Anna, after Kate died, I never would have wanted to talk or see the mom again
I would've run away
It's like Anna was ignored hy her entire family
WELL HER PARENTS HER SITER AND ESPECIALLY BROTHER WERE SCREWED MENTALLY UP BY THE ILLNESS AND EVEN THERE PARENTS BS
Anna wasn't the only one who had to pay for Sara's neglect, Jesse too. She was too focused on keeping Kate alive that she didn't realize that her neglect played a role into his juvenile delinquency nor how much Anna secretly resented her for how she treated them over the years. Kate knew this to well because even she resented Sara for what she's done to Anna and Jesse over the years
i read the books and its more brutal; jesse in the books developed pyromania due to the neglect and to catch his dad's attention (since he was a firefighter and the one putting down his fires). also, there's a scene where ana describes the family's living room and notices that there's mostly pictures of jesse and kate as children and like two of her. or one where sarah remembers how she would get mad at ana for being childish and crying on the way to the hospital only to remember that ana was 5 in that situation
the books are more brutal when talking about the neglect the two other kids were put on for kate's illness, that is what makes the book's ending (way different than the one in the movie) sadder.
@@claudia711 i loved how the author made part of the book from Sarah's perspective to "redeem" her when it had the opposite effect, making her seem even more insane and heartless since she actually loved Ana and somewhat realised using her like that is wrong yet kept pushing Ana anyway
@@ladyfire44 Jesse bringing Kate to their mother at the hospital and thinking "how could i've thought i can save her when i can't even save myself" genuenly made me cry. His interraction with Kate seemed so detached, like he was a stranger who found her daughter passed out on the street not her oldest child who is living in her backyard.
He obviously had self esteem issues because of the way he was brought up and he had noone to fight for him. Poor Jesse
How can a parent force their kid donate their body parts to their siblings? If I were a parent, the thought of sabotaging my child's health to save another one of my children wouldn't even cross my mind.
Who would create another child just to utilize them as spare parts for the sick one has no heart. Yes, I get that one child is sick, but to create another one so that first one can be well is wrong. Just admit that there's a losing battle and that death is inevitable. You take care of the sick child and if you just happen to have another child that's a perfect match is very fortunate.
She's literally manipulating her own child
And trying to sway the legal system too. This is an example of the principles of science being abused without regard for ethics or human life.
Horrible on so many levels.
This reminds me of a scene from an episode of ER. There was a woman who was in kidney failure, who would die without one. They found a match, who was her younger sister, of whom she had kicked out of the house years earlier.
They found the sister and asked her about donating. Her response?
"Let the bitch die..."
a good response. Ive read cases like that and just shows don't treat your family like shit coz you may need them one day.
May I ask what season was that?
That's the least justified thing I've ever heard
@@awesomecoolmanepic996 parents died and she was left to take care of her younger sister. She accepted the responsibility and then kicked out her 15 year old sister. Sister had to move in with friends. She was in her senior year, about to go to college on a basketball scholarship when they found her. A kidney transplant would end her chances of playing basketball.
She didn't owe her older sister (who abandoned her) a damn thing. 🤨🖕
@@theiran but we are talking about choosing holding grudges over saving somebody's life
Who stands up for Anna?
That part got me more then the whole movie
Kate did because she was tired of doing the surgeries and just wanted to die in peace.
In Australia, this scenario actually played out for real. A couple had a baby knowing full well it had a 50% chance of developing the lethal genetic disorder in their bloodline. They had a girl to harvest bone marrow from - despite the fact that it was not guaranteed that she would even be a match.
The one I read about was about a girl whose parents had a genetically modified baby boy to help her survive. It didn’t sound like that child went through as many procedures as Anna had to go through, though.
god daaaamn! any documentaries about this that you know of?
@@ColorsofHopeCraftsASMR hope that boy grows up to sue them. Did you have the case name?
The eugenicists of the 20th century demonstrated that sterilizing people is not the way to go
selective abortion and IVF processes are still viable methods though
When I was in middleschool I had a classmate who had merely been born, so her older brother could receive bone marrow.
She had been poked and probed her whole life.
She was so bitter and angry... And who could blame her?
Nobody asks to be born, parents have their own reasons for having kids
I haven't actually watched the movie but it seems extremely different to the book. In the book, Anna didn't want to give her kidney and Kate supported her, in the movie it seems Anna was okay with it which kind of defeated the point of the story, Not only that, Anna died in a car crash at the end of the book which doesn't seem to have occurred here. Huh.
I saw the movie before reading the book. And while I still enjoy the movie, I have to admit that I’ve had a hard time looking at it the same since I’ve read the book. I have to admit, though, that I didn’t really understand why Anna have to die in the book. At least, with the movie, you could see that Kate was getting weaker and you were left wandering if she would’ve survived even if the surgery went ahead.
Even in the film, Anna told Sara off that she refused to do the surgery anymore and she's important as well. Like in the book version, she was tired of missing out on her life and being in the hospital each time Kate relapsed. The only reason she held back from rebelling against Sara was because of her sister. It was Kate who convinced Anna to stop putting up with it, take control of her own life and fight for her rights to her body.
Personally i like the ending to the movie WAAAAY better. Ana dying right after she got the rights to her own body only for those rights to be completly ignored anyway after she died makes the whole action in thd book pointless.
Not true. Campbell did honor Anna's last wish before she died: to do the surgery and give Kate her kidney. He had medical POA, not Brian and Sara.
In the book's epilogue, Kate almost relapsed again until her body accepted the kidney. While the doctors assumed the surgery was a success, she knew differently why she survived. Kate believed that Anna died in her place so she can live. It was her death that brought new perspective to the family. Even though Sara got what she wanted and Kate survived, she got her karma in the end. She continued living with insurmountable guilt over how she treated Anna all her life as spare body parts by emotionally and mentally abusing her. Sara never realized how important she was to their family until after her death and it took her years to get over it.
the movie was better
I hate how she never even considered what Anna was going through. She didn't even see that she was killing her daughter to save the other.
God the mother is a monster
How is she? Yes she has done it wrong but could you let any of your children die? I would never hurt my children but I would do anything to save my daughters
@@stephatkins6336 You don't have kids to serve as spare parts for their siblings.
@@TheScylla666 it’s a bit more complex than she’s a monster and she’s using her for parts but ok.
The one from the books is worst
@@Hayden-my6cuno, it's really not. She's using her own daughter as spare parts for her favorite child. Anna could die for all she cares and she's okay with that as long as Kate lives.
"I asked her to help her sister. And she agreed."
She said that to a 5-year-old, what a manipulative parent. 😂
I first saw this in California with my sisters a long-ish time ago (we were all teens); all 3 of us left the theater with tears, them more than me. Now, as a 37 year old preparing for a Psychology research career (MS and PhD in the future, the latter hopefully), I see the ethical issues and questions in abundance surrounding this film, its story and everyone involved
The mom is a straight up monster. She only sees her daughter as a walking talking bag of spare parts to be used whenever her favorite child needs new ones. Then she gets emotionally & physically (she slapped her) when she *gasp* says she doesn't wanna loose any more body parts.
If I were Anna, even if Kate did not ask me to do so, I would have sued them both anyway. I absolutely hate it when people say you should sacrifice for your family no matter what. So if Anna sacrifice her health, her entire life then who will be her substitute then? Being related by blood is never the excuse for hurting someone
Exactly, and noone brought up another question, Kate's organs were failing one by one, what would happen when her heart would go?
Would Anna have to donate that too? Really show her how little she means to her own family?
Or even worse Kate would die and all Anna sacrificed for her sister would havw gone to waste
When Anna said: "Kill me or release me parasite, but do not waste my time" I felt that deeply.
I also loved at the end after her sister's death when she said: "were it so easy"
Everybody. Put yourself in their shoes. Is all Happened to me. My sister got cancer and she needed a kidney. My mom kept telling me to give her mine. I didn't want to. My mom told me 'if she does pass after we give her the kidney at least we have the honor of saying we tried' I gave her my kidney. Unfortunately she passed but she was at home with her family. We were just like them in the movie. Except unconditionally I was raised to give to my family and the ones I love.
Layla Cacaface This may sound a little weird, but did you get your kidney back? I don't know if that's even possible, I'm just curious.
MegaSheen15 no. I only have one kidney. But I'm healthy and take care of myself. Later on in the future tho someone will have to give me a kidney. It's okay to be curios
she's been having surgery since she was 3 months old so....giving ONE thing is one thing but bone marrow blood body parts since birth is sick for parents to make a new born or any child do
Daisy Dilemma I don't have children and don't ever plan to, but here's my opinion: my parents went through a similar situation with me. I was incredibly sick when I was born and nearly died. My mother already had my two older half-brothers with my grandparents and they had to keep going back and forth from her parents to the hospital (it was a 90 minute drive one way).
I'm not saying my situation is like Kate's, I'm just saying that when you have a sick child everything else just fades away. It's not intentional, your mind is just focused on keeping the sick child alive. There is no right or wrong choice in this situation you can't simply force one child to risk their life to save the other, but you can't just sit back and watch your child die either.
Layla Cacaface Your missing a important part of the issue the fact that your kidney was a match for your sister was determined by the grace of God. Anna's wasn't her parents conceived her to save her sister Anna's saying no because she wants to exceed the expectations to which she was born if she was born naturally like you and just happened to be compatible with her sister I would completely agree with you but this goes beyond just being a generous person.
“Who stands up for Anna?”
Boom. Mic drop.
Roles like this are Cameron Diazs best. Shes an amazing actress and really took that role to the next level
I REMEMBER DOING SUMMER HW FOR FRESHMEN YEAR ON THIS AND THIS BOOK IS REALLY SAD AND CUTS YOU OPEN. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE FACED AN ULTIMATUM TO DEPART YOUR CHILD.
Muhammad Mukhshaf me rn reading it for my summer homework hysterically crying
damn they really don’t care about anna
The sheer thought of conceiving a child as a spare parts storage for their sibling....Can you get ANY lower??
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO LOVED THIS!! I just got done reading the book and it was great.
I think the phrase 'Kids don't know what they want.' is worded wrong. It's more about 'Kids may know what they want, but they may not want that later. As adults they may regret their choices.'
This movie always makes me cry
The saddest part is that there are actual parents out there that would compromise their other kids to save one!
This mother is horrible. That’s your daughter, not a collection of spare parts. And while some of the procedures were non-invasive (like harvesting the umbilical cord) or didn’t have long-term effects, removing a kidney is not nothing and comes with risks. The idea that a child can forcibly have an organ removed is absolutely repulsive.
One thing I never understood. Call me dumb because I'm not good at medicine or biology...but if Sara wants Kate to live soo much, instead of abusing Anna for giving her kidney, why won't Sara give her own kidney...is it because of age?
Eunbit Park it has to be a match I think
It has to be a match so the receiver's body won't reject it, and Anna was conceived to be a perfect match for her sister to be the perfect donnor when she needed one, if I recall correctly
Maria Patricia Añez Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
She had to be a genetic match. Unfortunately, Sara wasn't one and she had planned to use Jesse to be the donor sibling. However aside being a blood match, he too wasn't viable as well. Thus, Brian and Sara conceived Anna through in-vitro to be a donor sibling match for Kate.
The sad part is that even if she gave her kidney , Kate still wouldn’t get better , she would just suffer longer
When a child is so desperate to have to get a lawyer to talk to her parents. Then something is not right.
" you wanna tell us why youre doing this? " She acting like shes the one who gave her sister lukimia 😂
Sometimes the best thing is just to let the people who are suffering go, it is selfish to want to force them to fight so we dont have to live on with the loss.
Her mom shouldn’t keep forcing her to do things she isn’t comfortable with.
A lot of you guys just thought you saw a mom guilt tripping a daughter who wants to protect her own body the movie makes it seem that way at first. The mom knew she wasnt telling her the real reason why she wouldnt donate this is what drove her mad and made her act controlling. Once the mom realized the real reason ,she then got mad at the cancer daughter instead of the healthy daughter and stopped arguing and demanding. The healthy daughter refused to donate mainly because the cancer sister had asked her to let her die and help end her suffering by refusing to donate every time mom asked her too. That was the main reason the healthy daughter sued.
Kids don't know what they want? I'm pretty sure kids know when they don't want to be sliced and used for parts.
heartbreaking scene
😂😂 “you know how young girls can be”
“Compromising one child’s health on behalf of the other”
“Mmhm”
No shame -_- at all
Objection, argumentative!
Your honor what in the fuck is this line of questioning
it got to a point where it wasn't even about Kate anymore
Alec Baldwin is amazing in this movie !
I’m not a lawyer but I feel like the last question of “you live your sister why won’t your help her” is a form of leading the witness no? Is there ground for objection here?
Yes it is a leading question and Alec Baldwin’s character should've objected at that moment. Asking “Why wont you help her?” is kinda putting words in Anna’s mouth. Especially if The Mom is looking for a specific response.
Think they should jail the doctor who suggest this medical technic
It was the only option if they wanted to save Kate and he did warn them it wasn't a perfect idea.
@@gerdtt79 i don't think he was legally supposed to suggest it either. It's not ethical
@@AunaturaleKinkz0121 he wasn't legally supposed to RECOMEND it but Its never said he wasn't allowed to suggest it.
"when you are young they assume you know nothing" - TS
Yall Kate wanted to die . Anna still wanted to help
True she didn’t want to stop helping her sister
Kate was the main reason that Anna sued for medical emancipation in the first place. She saw how much the family was suffering under Sara and she was already at the point where she stopped listening to everyone around her.
It would have done no good to keep putting her sister through this. She dying she can't help her
all of these actors are amazing
Aren’t u not allowed to say hi sweetie to a witness? I get that’s it’s her daughter but I thought u r to treat the witness as a witness
“..really hoping to keep her out of it.” This woman knows, beyond a shadow of any doubt, that her argument is a sturdy as wet cardboard.
But can we acknowledge one simple detail: no one can be forced, legally, to take part in any kind of medical procedure against their will. At least not since the days of Tuskegee and Mengele. (And yes, that was a House, M.D.).
She would kill anna to keep kate alive and wouldn't care a bit.
My question is why aren’t the parents in jail for making Anna give her body like that?! Like no jail time?
Because they made her too be a extact donor for her sister
I know we don't fully know what happened to the family long term after all the decisions were made, but I would not blame Jesse and Anna if they slowly severed ties with their mother as they became adults for all the psychological and physical abuse she put them through while she was still supposed to be raising them as well as Kate. If most of what you give someone is belligerence in the face of tragedy, how are they going to trust you enough in the future to so much as avoid finger pointing? You sow blame, you reap blame.
Love the sue God in the courtroom statement
It’s one of those moral dilemmas. Do you make both children live half a life? Or do you allowed one child to die and the other to live a full life?
Me personally, I would never be able to compromise the health of one for the other.
Even worse is there's no guarantee the latter will live a full life. It might extend her life, but given her condition it's not likely to extend that long
Herer's my question to the mom: What happens when Kate needs her sister's heart?
What an awful parent! She’s not even treating her daughter like a human being, but a donation item. And what’s worse, she guilts her into saving a sick child that’s wants to and is ready to die. Even if it means putting her other daughter in a seriously messed up condition that makes her not capable of living a good life for herself. What kind of sick twisted person does this to people!?
I'm sorry, is no one gonna comment on the subtitles on this? lol Instead of "who stands up for Anna?", it says "Who stares at pirana?" lmao dying
Those actors are thankful there were no guns in this movie.
He won that case? I wanna see what movie. He sues Jesus and won?
I get trying to save your child. It's heart-rending and a desperate situation. But disabling your healthy child? Because that's what is happening here. To take away the guilt, it's easier to see the healthy child as parts. To forget that there are 2 people, not just 1 and spare parts. Then guilt trip like that? That's not right. It's a sad, twisted, but it's not right to drive your 11 yr old to taking this kind of action.
Nobody asks to be born, parents always have kids for their own reasons
The Mom was such a Karen in this story.
Isn't it Debbie form the Addams family?
RedCowCat Yup. And Jessie the cowgirl from Toy Story.
3:30 and what if Anna was put in the ground for what you did to her?
Ironically that's how the book ended; Anna dies in a car accident and Kate gets the kidneys anyway.
To keep one daughter from being buries in the ground she’ll put another one there instead, there’s only so much you can give until your body can’t anymore, what’s the mom gonna do then
It's so heart breaking that the only Reason Anna does it because her Sister just want to finally die and not suffer anymore😥😥
Not only that, Anna also wanted rights to her body and live. In the novel's ending, she admitted to Campbell that she wants to give the kidney to Kate, but she also wanted it to be on her terms and not her mom's.
This movie makes you hate the mother, she is so insesitive towards Anna but, she is not brave enought to let her child go.
4:22 immediate motion for dismissing and striking that question from the record.
The absolute LEAST BAD thing you could call this is a leading question.
You COULD make an argument that this is not just a leading question, considering the relationship between the defendant, plaintiff and the interrogator, but an attempt to tamper with witnesses.
Alexander is a bad lawyer, that judge is basically braindead and the mother is a caricature. This is a bad movie.
I thibk her sister just wants everything to end and pass away peacefully. Since what she has is terminal and is causing her so much pain and torture. Her sister who gives evrryhting to her did not wnat to give anything else. Probably for her own sake, as she wnats to live her own life having the least amount of problems. And not having an arm missing or a kidney missing. Amd also because she just wnats to give her sister that relief that they can relax and never have to go through that again.
What makes no sense is Sarah herself admitted that kids can make medical decisions for themselves at 14. Kate is 14 or 15, which means she can decide to end things and her parents can't interfere. This whole debacle could of been avoided if Kate told her parents and the doctors 'I don't want to fight anymore. I want to pass peacefully'. And the doctors and parents would have no choice but to accept it.
This is not the entire movie. It's like a cheat for someone who needs to do a book report, or for someone without time to watch it in it's entirety. It does, however maintain the spirit of the movie.
What she do know is that she don't wanna but cutt open or stick with needles anymore
Brilliant Movie
What’s the movie name?
Yoooooo the doctor is that guy from the live action cat in the hat movie!
No offense but Sarah Fitzgerald was a very cold-hearted, ignorant mother in this film!! No wonder why she and her husband hated Anna so much! It really breaks my heart how they treated their youngest child in this film! 😢😢 All they cared about was Kate and how they forced her to give her body parts when she was just a baby!! The parents in this film should’ve been sentenced to life in prison by this judge!!
I don't think so. During Campbell's cross examination of Brian, he admitted they only had Anna to be Kate's savior sibling and a genetic match. They only started off giving up the cord blood from her umbilical cord and bone marrow treatment. This temporarily kept Kate in remission and allowed them to raise Anna properly. Things got worse when she relapsed again. This time, the doctors had to get stem cells from Anna at age 5 to keep Kate alive. He and Jesse were the only ones who visited her, while Sara didn't bother to do so and only saw their youngest as spare body parts. Once Brian learned how much Kate wanted to die so badly, he understood how this was affecting their family negatively. At some point, he wanted to stop the treatment and mentioned he tried talking Sara out of it several times. Even the doctors suggested she let Kate die in peace and stop treatment. Unfortunately, Sara refused to listen to anyone when they called her out for her selfishness. She didn't want to stop and was willing to sacrifice Anna's life just to keep Kate alive.
During Sara and Jesse's argument, Brian called Sara out again. He points out that Kate told everyone in the family countless of times that she was ready to die and wanted to stop the surgeries. Sara refused to listen and gave in to her insanity. Brian can no longer support such behavior and refused to put Anna through this again. That's when Sara stopped being selfish and started understanding why her family felt the way they did. At some point, she stopped listening to everyone around her when they told her to let Kate go. I get she wanted to be like those parents whose children survived against all odds and are living their best lives. However, where Sara failed to understand, was that it wasn't her decision to make. It was Kate's decision to stop treatment and die.
If they were talking about sex (adult content in the media, sex ed, youth's view of sex, etc...) and not health everyone would side with the parents and say: "Kids dunno what they want."
the difference is whenever making a decision for your child it has to be SOLELY FOR THEIR WELL BEING not the well being of another, life or death circumstances be damned.
How can you say those things?! How can you say those things in front of Anna?! Do you even know the first thing about Anna or Jessie?!
The only question Alec Baldwin needed to ask was “did you have your second daughter after a doctor said they could make a daughter that’s a perfect match for organ donation.” They didn’t have a kid because they wanted another daughter they wanted an organ donor and a doctor said this was the best way.
U go girl
Better call Saul
0:50 You sure you want to go through with this?
*Good for you.*
Movie name?!
I get that the mom is in a horrible position she has a sick child she wants to help and that’s really understandable but how she went about it isn’t. She never listened to the younger child she treated her well and loved her most of the time but come time to take parts she was brutal going in and getting what was needed she stopped listening to the older daughter when she told her what she wanted and she was single minded in her determination to just keep her alive. I also blame the dad cause he knew how the older daughter felt and he never stuck up for Anna he never defended her or took her side so he is just as bad
He did stand up to Sara a few times in the movie.
1. At the dinner scene after Anna was slapped by Sara for wanting to sue for medical emancipation, Brian yelled at her for what she's done after Jesse did.
2. He testified against Sara when Campbell was cross examining him and he admitted they only had Anna to be Kate's savior sibling. At some point, Brian wanted to stop with the forced surgeries because he saw how this was affecting their family in a negative manner. He mentioned he tried talking Sara out of it several times and even the doctors suggested she let Kate die in peace. Unfortunately, she refused to listen to anyone when they called her out for her selfishness. Sara didn't want to stop and was willing to sacrifice Anna's life just to keep Kate alive.
3. During Sara and Jesse's argument, Brian called Sara out again. He points out that Kate told everyone in the family countless of times that she was ready to die and wanted to stop the surgeries. Sara refused to listen and gave in to her insanity. Brian can no longer support such behavior and refused to put Anna through this again. That's when Sara stopped being selfish and started understanding why her family felt the way they did. At some point, she stopped listening to everyone around her when they told her to let Kate go. I get she wanted to be like those parents whose children survived against all odds and are living their best lives. However, where Sara failed to understand, was that it wasn't her decision to make. It was Kate's decision to stop treatment and die.
I understand its for her students but cant she think for herself like for example she wants to go in active sports now she cant because of tons of surgeries she cant keep sacrificing her organs
Low key wondering where an 11 year old got $700. plus parents have to have known something more was up. Like how did Anna get to the lawyer's office? Are 11 year olds that unsupervised in the USA if not then someone must have gone with her- mother should have looked into that
She sold her locket
@@NahtsWorld 11 year olds can pawn things? I dont think her brother was involved in the beginning
@@jadebolt4416 did you watch the movie? If you did you'd know how it happened, plus it's from 2009
@@NahtsWorld i did watch the movie like decade ago and i know what happens but at no point in the movie does it show how Anna got to the Lawyer
Plus im not american and have no idea how thing work there
@@jadebolt4416 you don't need to be American to know. Re-watch again
what episode is this
Why didn't the mom hire a lawyer?
She is a lawyer herself.
I'm sorry I hated Cameron Diaz's character in this movie. This was not good parenting. At some point you have to ask Sarah, what she wants. At a certain point the quality of life comes into play here. And if my sister needed one of my kidney's absolutely I would give her one, but there are factors at play here. I can live with out my kidney, I can't live without my sister, and I knew that the quality of life for my sister would be better than the alternative dying. In this movie, with this situation there were other factors. Sarah has been sick most of her life. She has lived longer sick than she has healthy. At a certain point that is debilitating, knowing you are not the best version of yourself and the people who you care about are suffering and becoming numb to the pain of others, because Sarah's pain is all encompassing. At a certain point it is Sarah's call. Ana wasn't just fighting for herself, she was fighting for her sister's right to choose. Sarah realized that she lost her voice when it came to her mother, because she blocked everything out in the world and Sarah knew that. Ana knew that she was a designer baby. When the doctor told her of the procedure, which he shouldn't have, Ana knew that her opinion didn't hold any weight to her mother. She had two other kids and a husband, completely unaware of how her neglect and unintentional (and sometimes intentional) emotional abuse was affecting them. Sarah saw all of this and tried to tell her mom and she wouldn't listen.