I find it strange that abortion is acceptable to kill a baby.
A baby is not killed during an abortion, a fetus is. It’s not a baby until it’s viable and can survive outside of the woman’s body. The fetus is not a person, medically or legally, until it is surviving outside the woman’s body.
Nonetheless, I believe euthanasia should be a legal option, but it’s a tricky situation. On one hand, if a person gives consent in their right mind, it should be granted. However, when you’re lying in a hospital bed dying of cancer and perhaps in a lot of pain, are you in your right mind? Also, it should only be done when death is near and inevitable; we shouldn’t be killing people that simply don’t have it in them to take their own lives. I think it could be a pre-determined thing, similar to a DNR. If we can decide that we don’t want to be brought back to life, we can decide that we want to be put out of our misery if we’re ever in a situation like this. There are issues with that as well, though. Human rights can be a tricky thing.
@ragingloli So we should allow our pets to be in pain, riddled with cancer, shitting on themselves, unable to move until they die naturally? I sincerely hope you don’t have pets. Animals can’t give consent only because they cannot talk to us – that doesn’t mean they deserve to suffer a slow, painful death.