I believe that parents are not morally justified in having a child simply to provide life-saving medical treatment to another child or family member. family, but that does not mean that the creation of savior siblings is morally forbidden. By having a child solely to provide life-saving medical treatment, you are treating that child simply as a means rather than an end to the individual child. By having the child only as a means of saving another, you violate this savior brother to the extent that you treat him as a source of spare parts that can be used by the sick child in order to favor only the prolongation of life. the life of the person who is currently ill. child. This view of having a child simply as a means of providing medical treatment fails to take into account the multitude of other pathways that this newborn may take and presupposes that the child will only be used for the sole purpose of providing life-saving medical treatment through the use of stem cells or organ donation. What this view fails to take into account is that these savior siblings are valued by families for much more than simply as a human bag of good cells and organs that can be used to save lives of the original child. Instead, these savior siblings may themselves be valued as normal children, in the sense that they may be valued the same as any other child who is born, but at the same time they will also be able to provide life-saving treatment to their children. their brother. My view parallels that of Claudia Mills, who argues that it is acceptable to have a savior sibling, but at the same time we cannot have children for purely instrumental reasons, and should rather, value the child for his or her intrinsic character. It's worth it for them to have it. Mills presents his argument by putting ...... middle of paper ...... sic qualities, I think savior siblings are only allowed as far as the life prospects of savior siblings are not hindered by anything they give to the brother or sister who suffers from a certain deficiency. In this sense, if the family causes a negative effect on the savior sibling that will inhibit his or her prospects like any other normal child, then I feel that having the savior sibling for that family is not not morally permissible. This would limit the creation of savior siblings to only those families who would truly value the child for more than just their health and helping the sick child, but who would also value them for the person they are. Claudia. “Are there morally problematic reasons to have children?.” Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 25.4 (2005): 2-9. Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly. Internet. November 29. 2013.