To abort or not to abort

[The Valkyrie]

Okay, your definition of what makes a person is seriously skewed. A person asleep or unconscious is STILL a person. Whereas a person who is braindead is not since they have no potential to return to consciousness.

I really don't see how you can compare the two.

Beccs, ask yourself what things a being must be capable of in order to qualify as a person. If you are honest, a human being under general anesthesia is not capable of those things. They were in the past....They will be(mostly likely) in the future.....but while under GA...they are not capable of those things.

Let me ask you this. Do you consider cryogenically frozen "people" persons? Would you change your mind if it was shown that in the future science would be capable of bringing these dead people back to life?

Independent respiration is always a good start. Don't try to deine honesty for me, it's just a desperate attempt to reinforce your argument at the expense of others.

But, to answer your second paragraph, your stretching the bounds of credibility by speculating on what is currently a science fiction scenario.

People who are cryogenically frozen these days have died. Therefore they are dead and, for lack of a better term, empty vessels. Not people any longer. The state of modern cryonics is that those bodies in deep freeze suffer from "freezer burn" and, if medical technology does advance far enough to revive them, they will need to undergo serious regeneration of their bodies before they're viable.

And that's the magic word: "viable". Until a fetus is viable outside its mother's body, it is not a person.