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Let's say she was planning to abort the fetus? What changes?
Then an evil plan was thwarted. Hooray.
Of course, we have no reason to think such awful things about the deceased, so your speculations may as well include the fantastic - let's say the fetus isn't a human but a unicorn, what changes?
So if I understand correctly, people who believe this woman should be kept on life support also believe a dead persons organs should be harvested regardless of consent? I'm not sure what the ethical difference would be in regards personal autonomy Vs. the greater good.
No, no one should be forced to be an organ donor.
I don't see how this relates at all. I know this is a common comparison people make with regards to abortion, and now this much rarer, somewhat related topic, but it really isn't the same thing and it doesn't really relate.
She may well still be able to have her organs donated at the end of this if that is what she wanted, or whatever else she wished to have done with her remains. Her brain is dead, so there is nothing more that can be done for her. The treatment being given is for the kid. It is appropriate to honor the wishes of the deceased... once she is removed from the life support. She should be removed from the life support as soon as possible, which is when that act will not needlessly kill someone else.
Your body is your property and one may bequeath that property on death, or not. You don't have to give your organs to anyone.
Among other things, what I think you are comparing is the act of not giving someone something and the act of deliberately killing them. And no, I don't think those are equivalent, even when the other will die without that thing you might be able to give them.
You are comparing random stranger with bad kidneys to a kid you created and are obliged to provide for, as well, only in the latter case you are quite literally only talking about the passive provision of oxygen and nutrition.
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