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Somebody in a persistent vegetative state or a coma is functionally equal to a fetus. The only significant difference between the two is the coma patient has a significant likelihood of feeling pain if painful stimulus is presented.
Both the fetus and the PVS/coma patient require life support to maintain "life".
Both the fetus and the PVS/coma patient are unable to sustain life without constant access to life support systems.
Both the fetus and the PVS/coma patient are completely and totally lacking consciousness.
Both the fetus and the PVS/coma patient are often kept alive or allowed to die by the decisions of family members, with absolutely no input from themselves.
So if you would not mandate that PVS/coma patients be kept alive, your absolutely idiotic demands for the cessation of abortion are ragingly hypocritical. If you would mandate that PVS/coma patients be kept alive, your point is still idiotic (not to mention painfully illogical).
Perhaps it would serve you well to actually consider the true facts of the situation before utilizing arbitrary, fleeting, and wholly subjective morality to create a false reality in which abortion is somehow more than it is.
I agree with your broader point, but I don't think the analogy is quite perfect since coma patients are usually let to die when there is little to no hope for recovery, while the fetus will "recover" into a person in less than 9 months.