Not only that, what about full term infants who need initial help breathing? I suppose they too don't get "human" status until the oxygen tent comes off--even if it is just moments that they need this. I wonder if people lose their human qualities as well? I mean, do you cease to be human when you go under for a surgery and they use a respirator for breathing while you are under? Hey, heck with just breathing as a qualification--if someone is disabled in some way and can not survive without the extensive assistance of others, perhaps they are not or less human too? IMO, this is a pretty poor way with which to judge if someone is human or not.
I couldn't agree more. It's only a hop, skip, and a jump to euthansia. Do you think this is what early Nazi Germany was like? It's like the right-to-live isn't really what it means, it's the right to have a "quality of life" that someone else determines. God help us. It's horrifying to see how far we've sunk as a society. Were the barbarians really any worse? This is barbaric to me!