In a world full of the advancements of transplants, you often wonder just how far doctors and scientists are going to go. In the past couple of years more and more successful and failed transplants have been making the news. Transplants such as a giving a little boy two hands that he could use to write and to play, as well as, a failed, uterus transplant to give a women a chance to become a mother in her own way. Transplants like these are such an amazing medical advancement, since most transplants come from brain dead patients. However what happens when all transplants start to come from actual living people?
Set in a dysopian world the Unwind series, which is written by Neal Shusterman, answers that very question. This series highlights that demand for living longer has increase dramatically, and the only way to answer that demand is unwinding unwanted teenagers. The whole process of unwinding is basically taking every single piece of a person while they are still alive, as well as when they are fully awake. Unfortunately the real reason unwinding started was because it was a comprise between pro-life and pro-choice people. A person could not abort their child, but they could have them unwind once the child reaches 13 years old. In his books Shusterman spins a tale that could very well happen with the way the world is going.
In this day and age more and more people are jumping on the bandwagons of either pro-life or pro-choice. Pro-life people say that a child is a living being from the moment the sperm reaches the egg, while pro-choice people believe that the mother should have a choice on what she wants to do. I believe in both, I can't stands the thought of aborting a child just because you don't want it, when there are thousands of choices out there that gives the child a chance at life. However, i do believe that a women have a choice on what they want to do with their own bodies. In the end its not as simply as saying you now have a child growing inside of you, you have to protect that child. The mother is still its own person, she still has a choice on what she wants to do, but again its not as simple.
Transplants save lives and their is no if or buts about that simple fact, but there isn't enough people dying to met the demand. That isn't a sad or horrible fact, it just is because that is how we get the majority of our transplants. The little boy that received hands? That was an amazing feat,and the women who got that uterus transplant? Another amazing feat, even if it failed. With the advancements of the medical science behind transplants growing, more and more people are able to see or walk, or breathe again. However, will we always have to wonder how far the human race will go to get the body parts they so despair need or desire?
Whether its unwinding, transplants or the choice between your life or your babies, several questions still need to be ask including, How far will we go for a transplant? As well as, how will we come to that decision?
