[thecavemaster]

As to the "victim" analogy, the victim is NOT alive when the organs are harvested. You cannot harvest organs from someone who has not been declared legally dead. You bring up the idea of "life support", but when someone still has brain activity and is still considered alive, they will not talk to the family about harvesting the organs. And if someone did broach the subject, they would likely get a punch to the face, and deservedly so.

I am not mixing judgments. You are the one who keeps bringing up Roe v. Wade to support your position, even though the thread is to discuss our personal opinions. Again, we all know the current law, but that doesn't make it right. As I've brought up in earlier posts, there are countless examples of unfair practices in this country that were legitimized by the law, such as denying people of color the right to vote. Being supported by a law does not make a practice right, and the legalized killing of babies is still wrong no matter what the law says.

If you do value human life, how can you justify taking the life simply for the convenience of the mother? Just because being pregnant would make it hard for a 16-year-old girl to attend high school, is not justification for the mother to kill the unborn baby.

In pointing out that you appealed to the "legal" aspect to serve your purposes in one area, then discounted "legal" and held to the ground of some "higher" moral/universal standard in another, I did not err. You did it. While a victim lives, a judgment is made as to the value of a "life support only" existence as opposed to a "those who will benefit from the organs" person. The point is this: we (human beings) value and devalue and rank and prioritize other human lives all the time. When it comes to a fertilized egg, though, the tears flow, the Bibles wave, shouts of "innocent" abound (something not capable of guilt is not capable of innocence). I believe that the value of the mother's life exceeds that of the fertilized egg as a matter of perspective and of reason. You disagree. I will now leave it there.