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Probably so, but I guess it could potentially be a complicated question of whether or not it is a state where recovery is possible or if it isn’t. In the case where there is no brain activity and it’s impossible for it to come back, I would consider that person to be effectively dead despite the...

There isn’t a clear cut line between life and death. There are some people who are clearly alive and so d who are clearly dead, just as a newborn baby is clearly a human and a drop of semen isn’t. A corpse is dead and a healthy person is alive, but what about a brain dead person? What about...

I don’t think that there is necessarily a clear cut line. It’s a continuum, which is what makes it hard. In the third trimester there isn’t really much of a functional difference between the fetus and a newborn. In the early weeks, it’s hard to attribute humanity to something with no nervous...

A fetus is neither a human nor a non-human. It is in that philosophically uncomfortable gray zone where we can’t say that killing it is murder nor can we say that an abortion is mere tissue removal. It is an excluded middle.