Topic: Abortion
Quote: Often, this debate becomes dotted with examples of things like human vegetables who might come out of their coma as potential people who aren't really people, or a person who was knocked out in a brawl as a potential person who is not (on some level) currently a person, and many other examples. We often believe it is immoral to kill people in these conditions, so the potentiality argument says that a fetus is just as sacred and requires our protection.
Response: There is never a question of "killing people" in such circumstances, it a matter of deciding if treatment should be withdrawn and thus allow them to die, i.e. where there is no possibility of any sort of a recovery.\n
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