The mom and Anna

of course she did. In her own sense, within a situation that can be horrible. Her primary instinct, before anna was born was to save her other child who was dying of this disease. I think she becomes so blinded by this primary mission in life, that even the choice to "make" anna of course has saving her other child as her ultimate goal. Anna says it herself, she was made to save her sister.

It's not to say that the mom didn't love anna, she was blinded, in an impossible situation with an impossible choice and she couldn't let go. And what you see in this movie is the fall out of her inability to let go and how everyone around her made peace with it, and had to, forcably, help her to make her own sense of peace. I'm sure she loved anna in her own way, not to even say that she loved Kate more than anna. But the situation had become to grave that Kate was all the mother could see, and the end goal of saving kates life.

She clings to the kidney surgery as if it will be the cure all, that Kate will wake up a normal, cancer free girl and everything will be okay, meanwhile everyone around her realizes what Kate has realized herself already. That she's ready to go, but that the situation around her needs to be fixed so that she can go in peace. perhaps she even thought herself the situational problem, and that her death would mend fences, but she needed to put the gear in motion first.

She asks Anna to do this thing for her because she needed to make the mom see that Kate and her illness were not the only things in that world that existed. That the mother had other children, a husband, and a life that needed to be lived. Kate realized long before her mother, that her mother had stopped living her own life, and it was time for everyone to continue, or start living.

So in a long way yes she loved anna, of course she did, and she was motivated to do all of these things by her love for her other child. She just had such tunnel vision that Kate and the rest of the family needed to push her to make peace or even begin to make peace

I think she did.

In her mind, the risks for Anna were worth it compared to the risks for Kate- and in a logical sense, they were. Short hospitalizations, blood draws and organ donation (that would still allow the donator to live a healthy life) seem like a much smaller sacrifice when you compare them to death. Of course, the decision was not a strictly logical one, and that is where the issue comes up. Just because Anna's sacrifice was smaller doesn't mean she shouldn't have a choice in it.

The mother had a hard time letting go of Kate, and was grasping at any chance she could to prolong her life. She viewed Anna's situation as a mild inconvenience for Anna, since Kate's issues were so much more dire.

The night is a very dark time for me.