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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (506116)12/8/2003 5:32:06 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
It's true that a fetus will often develop into a sentient human being and a brain dead adult will rarely become sentient again (though we can't say with absolute certainty what state of consciousness such a person has), is the morality of this reduced to playing the odds then? Likely sentient human = murder and unlikely sentient human = no murder? That sounds like moral relativism to me.

<<There was no natural obligation to plug them in in the first place.>>

And the pro-abortion argument says that a woman has no obligation to provide life-support to the developing fetus.

Now we will get in to your arbitrary definitions of what is natural. Isn't it part of our nature to care for the ill and wounded?

I think technology may well render this debate moot. I expect that soon a woman's body won't be needed for the development of a fetus and this debate instead of being settled will become moot.

Steve Dietrich
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