re: #84 ElCapitanAmerica

OK I get your point, I was thinking of something else (kind of a social responsibility to save lives).

But bone marrow is not a cognitive being, that’s kind of the big difference. A fetus is attached to a woman, but the whole debate is around when that fetus becomes a human being with rights; which is why people talk about viability, but like I mentioned, viability keeps moving earlier and earlier, so that’s an argument that I think even pro-abortion rights people are not comfortable with.

The person receiving the bone marrow donation - the one who will die without the donation - is a cognitive being. A human being. With rights. But their rights do not extend to forcing another person to keep them alive.

The bone marrow is merely representative of what the female body is providing for the embryo/fetus.