<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419928" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Adam’s Rib</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was one of thirty embryos, <br>but I, alone, survive.<br>I am the Savior sibling<br>Without which my sister dies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We started out in vitro-<br>Men in white coats then decided<br>That I would be implanted, <br>all the others left to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mollie, my older sister, <br>carries a defective gene: <br>Excess hemoglobin<br>caused anemia extreme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From my umbilicus they took stem cells<br>And Mollie’s blood was cleaned.<br>They say I am a miracle.<br>To most, that’s how it seems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what about the twenty nine<br>Who died that she might live? <br>Did they not have a human right<br>As good as mine to live? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why could they not be cherished<br>by our mother from the start? <br>Instead of summoned into being<br>as a little girl’s spare parts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love my sister Mollie, <br>And she is awfully fond of me.<br>I’m not just her little brother-<br>I’m her insurance policy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419928" data-title="Adam’s Rib de John F. McCullagh" data-description="I was one of thirty embryos, but I, alone, survive. I am the Savior sibling Without which my sister dies. We started out in vitro- Men in white coats then decided That I would be implanted, all the others left to die. Mollie, my older sister, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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