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  • Essay / Morality and Morality - 1093

    They didn't follow through on what the parents asked for because a Florida law says you can't harvest organs until the donor is dead . Although it would be sad to kill baby Theresa to donate her organs, I would agree with her parents and doctors because she doesn't have long to live and will never be conscious, so why not take the good organs and give them to another baby who might live. The ethicist disagreed with the parents and the doctor because they said "it's wrong to use people as means to achieve other people's goals", they said that by harvesting his organs , you would use it to help other people's children. When you use someone it means violating their autonomy, Baby Theresa has no autonomy so there is no way to violate her. People can't always decide for themselves, while she can't decide for herself, you have to think "what would be in her best interest?" ยป Either way, Baby Theresa would die, so there's really no point in her. Ethicists also said, "It's wrong to kill one person to save another," if you killed Baby Theresa to