This story of a brain-dead Irish woman being kept on life support to keep her foetus alive seems less than clear-cut:http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/high-court-to-rule-on-case-of-pregnant-woman-on-friday-1.2047499 …
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If you take my view that a foetus is essentially valueless, the wishes of the family surely mean she should be allowed to die…
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But most pro-abortion people do not share my view and think foetuses are morally valuable in some way, just that mother's wishes trump that.
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If the mother is braindead then the 'bodily autonomy' position now seems irrelevant. Why should family wishes override foetus's 'wishes'?
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The bodily autonomy viewpoint as held by most pro-abortion people is very weak in many ways but here it is not even relevant.
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@s8mb interesting - agree bodily autonomy doesn't bear much weight (slight different scenario - http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-abortion.html …)
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