(May 26, 2014 at 11:55 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 11:48 pm)Losty Wrote: I'm not talking about removing anything from myself or a fetus' body. No amount of love, breast milk and diaper changing will keep a fetus alive if it is not hooked up to an independent life form (a human being). It cannot engage in homeostasis on its own.
A fetus is a non-sentient living being with human DNA. It cannot think or feel, and it is not aware of its own existence.
Is it okay to shoot someone who is hooked up to a heart/lung machine? Those people aren't viable either.
Viability as a rationale for deciding which human beings can be killed and which can't is silly.
You can create a new thread about whether or not it is morally right to shoot a person hooked up to a heart/lung machine if you want. That is not the topic of this discussion.