My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

My mom recommended My Sister's Keeper to me a couple of times. Since we have no TV and when Mike is researching/writing, I have lots of free time on my hands, I finally checked it out from the library. I read the first 20 pages on Saturday night, and by 8pm on Sunday, I had finished the other 387 pages.
The book is about a 13 year old girl, Anna, who was brought into this world specifically to save her sister, Kate, from a rare form of Leukemia. She was a test tube baby who's embryo was chosen to be implanted into her mother because she was a close genetic match to her sister. Anna starts donating to Kate the moment she is born by giving the blood in the umbilical cord. No harm is done to Anna and it is something that would otherwise be thrown in the trash. She doesn't have to give more platelets, white blood cells, etc until she is a toddler, in Kindergarten she donates bone marrow, etc. Her parents thought it would be done with the stem cells in the umbilical cord, but every time they were presented with Kate's eminent death, Anna was usually able to save her.
The reader enters the story as Anna is being asked to donate a kidney. With all the chemo, transplants, etc that Kate has received, she is entering renal failure and needs a close genetic match for the kidney transplant. Anna secretively collects money and walks to an attorney's office. She files a suit against her parents for the medical rights to her own body.
This was an amazing story FULL of twists. The ending was a complete shock and made me cry buckets.
My Sister's Keeper brings up some very difficult questions. What lengths would you go to to save your children's lives? And not only those that are sick. Questions about stem cell research, genetically manufactured embryos, etc. Don't get me wrong, I am all for IVF, I know some spectacular people who won't be here without it. But when you genetically play with them, what are the ethical ramifications? Fortunately for me, I am not in these parents situation, and hopefully will never be. I cannot say for certain that if there was a chance to save my daughter, by having another baby, I wouldn't do it. Even if that embryo had been chosen because of its genetics.