task0778
Diamond Member
Those courts also recognize that if my child is in an irreversible coma I can legally terminate their life. Not unlike an abortion I think? This thread is about what it means to be alive.Try walking into a coma ward and shooting one... See if the courts agree with you. As for the other. Dead is dead. This thread is about the living.A corpse or a human in a coma with no brain activity is also a very specific collection of chemicals. Unfortunately no longer a person.No ones infringing on your prerogative to think so. Whatever else they may be... They are also a very specific collection of chemicals...I like to think that humans are more than a collection of chemicals.They are distinguasable from other animals at the moment of conception. DNA analysis can make this distinction quite easily...
Do the courts also decide who can and cannot have an abortion, case by case as they do in your scenario for anybody in an irreversable coma? That's why your scenario is not like an abortion. The law varies state by state I think, but if a woman claims her pregnancy was due to a rape or incest is there a trial or proof required? That unborn child is ALIVE, it just hasn't been born yet. I see a lot of concern for the mother, who I suspect in most was not raped, but none for the child.