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CMV: Abortion is no different than pulling the plug on someone who is brain dead and both are okay

How is it that people can say abortion is immoral or murder when it is essentially the same concept as pulling the plug on someone who is brain dead? When you remove a fetus from a body it is not able to survive on its own the same way if you remove someone who is brain dead from life support their body will fail and they will die. It is commonly accepted that it is okay to kill someone who is brain dead by pulling the plug on their life support so why is it not okay to kill a fetus by removing it from the body?

EDIT: while I have not been convinced that abortion is wrong and should be banned I will acknowledge that it is not the same as unplugging someone from life support due to the frequently brought up example of potential for future life. Awarding everyone who made that argument a delta would probably go against the delta rules so I did not. Thanks everyone who made civil comments on the topic.

MY REPLIES ARE NOW OFF FOR THIS POST, argue amongst yourselves.
gpt
They *are* different. For a variety of reasons, philosophical or medical. 

A fetus *in very early stages* doesn't have a brain to begin with. The "life starts at conception"-crowd doesn't care about that.

As time goes on, the fetus develops into a very different being with considerably more characteristics worth noting. At some point it *does* develop a brain. At some point it does actually resemble a human baby more so than a shrimp.

When 2 weeks away from an otherwise normally scheduled birth, abortion would surely be equivalent to infanticide, because those last 2 weeks are easily survivable thanks to modern medicine.

And what exactly do **you** mean when you say "brain dead"? In medical terminology, a vegetative state is distinct from brain death. A vegetative state *can* be recovered from, but brain death is --- per definition --- permanent.

Furthermore, a brain dead person *has a history and relations to other humans*. A fetus doesn't have that.