JD_2B
Little Vixen
Nor does she, that is what adoption is for. The only inconvenience suffered is the carrying and delivery and I feel that is not take precedence to being cut up into small pieces and thrown away. Heck, pain killers are not even used for partial birth abortions and I cant see death by chemicals as being pleasant.Neither does the room have to deal with your feeding, shelter, healthcare, education, personal/moral/ethical upbringing for at least the next 18 years.
Look, at that point the brain is still in existence and functioning, just not fully. You may disagree but the possibility of gaining a self is not the issue for me and pro, it is the attaining it in the first place. In your example the child is not brain dead, there is no recovering from brain death. That is a coma and coma patients are not brain dead. They retain no new memories in most cases but they are still functioning at some level.If a doctor told some parents that their son had an 85% chance of gaining consciousness and becoming sentient, you would leave the decision up to the parents about whether to pull the plug or not?
No rdean , youre the only one here who is being facetious and it is not appreciated. We are attempting to have an intelligent conversation here.
Well, technically speaking, if the kid does not have a living will, which I don't even think a minor CAN have one anyways, then even a kid who has an 85% chance of regaining consciousness can be removed from life support.
Life support is a sociological responsibility, not a RIGHT.
A person can have a major head injury, not be brain dead, but have swelling, and the parents can choose to not allow them to even START being on life support.
The parents can choose whether the person even gets a blood transfusion, if they want, or if the person should be on a ventilator, or get mouth to mouth, even. Its a little thing called a DNR order (no not resuscitate) and the VAST majority of those, for kids, come from parents and doctors.
It is not KILLING or MURDERING someone to remove them from their source of life support, or to deny them life support technology. People may have the right to life, but they do not have an entitlement to live.
Tough shit. Deal with it.