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When faced with statistics about organ donation and transplants, the gap between donation and need is staggering. Lives are lost every day due to lack of donors, yet every day healthy organs are wasted by not being donated to help save the life of someone else. Although the majority of people accept organ transplantation as a necessary medical intervention, few are lining up to become donors. It's up to us to make a difference.

Parents used an embryo selection process to have a healthy baby that would potentially be a donor match to cure its siblings of a genetic disease. In most cases like this, the children that were created as a "savior sibling" become part of the family, but what happens to those that serve their purpose and aren't needed after that? Embryos that don't meet the donor criteria are discarded. So what happens to the children that donate and cure their siblings, can they be discarded as well (put up for adoption)?

This article was interesting to me, because I tried and was rejected as a living donorfor my dad. I was told I could donate to someone else, but because of his disease, they would not perfrom a transplant on him.