Designer Baby

[Thierry31]

Bonjour, je dois rendre un sujet type bac pour la semaine de la rentrée et je ne comprend pas du tout le 1er texte. Et je ne peut pas faire le sujet 1 d'expression écrite sans avoir compris ce texte. J'aurais besoin d'un peu d'aide. Merci

The narrator, Campbell, is a lawyer. He has been asked for legal advice by thirteen-year-old Anna.

"They had me so that I could save Kate, " the girl explain. "They went to special doctors and everything, and picked the embryo that would be a perfect genetic match. " There had been ethic courses in law school, but I usually skipped them. Still, anyone who tuned in periodically to CNN would know about the controversies of stem cell research. Spare parts babies, designer infants, the science of tomorrow to save the children of today. I tap my pen on the desk, and Judge - my dog - sidles closer. "What happens if you don't give your sister a kidney ?"

"She'll die."

"And you're okay with that?"

Anna's mouth sets in a thin line. "I'm here, aren't I?"

"Yes you are. I'm just trying to figure out what made you want you to put your foot down, after all this time."

She looks over at the bookshelf. "Because," she says simply, "it never stops."

Suddenly, something seems to jog her memory. She reaches into her pocker and puts a wad of crumpled bills and change onto my desk. "You don't have to worry about getting paid, either. That's $136,87. I know it's not enough, but I'II figure out a way to get more."

It's not that I'm a particulary charitable man, but rather that legally, this case is a lock: she doesn't want to give a kidney; no court in its right mind would force her to give up a kidney; I don't have to do any legal research, the parents will cave in before we go to trial, and that will be that. Plus, the case will generate a ton of publicity for me, and will jack up my pro bono for the whole damn decade. "I'm going to file a petition for you in family court: legal emancipation for medical purposes," I say.

"Then what?"

"There will be a hearing, and the judge will appoint a guardian ad litem (tuteur pour la procédure juridique), which is a person trained to work with kids in the family court, who determines what's in the child's best interests," Anna recites. "Or in other words, just another grown-up deciding what happens to me."

[Jean B]

Bonjour,

J'ai du mal à croire que tu n'as rien compris du tout.

Pourquoi ne commences-tu pas par me dire ce que tu as compris et ce qui te pose véritablement problème ?

Quand tu seras devant ta copie de bac il faudra bien que tu te débrouilles seul, non ?

Alors autant commencer l'entraînement tout de suite, je te promets de l'aide mais seulement après.

Qu'en dis-tu ?

À te lire.

[Thierry31]

J'ai juste compris que le texte parler la rencontre entre un avocat et Anna, et il me semble que Anna voulait donner un rein pour sauver Kate (je ne sais pas qui sont ces personnages).

Je ne comprend pas pourquoi Anna dois se rendre chez un avocat pour pouvoir donner un rein ?

[Jean B]

J'ai juste compris que le texte parler la rencontre entre un avocat et Anna, et il me semble que Anna voulait donner un rein pour sauver Kate (je ne sais pas qui sont ces personnages).

Je ne comprend pas pourquoi Anna dois se rendre chez un avocat pour pouvoir donner un rein ?

[Thierry31]

Merci beaucoup pour votre aide.