It was interesting that in the recent sad case of Alfie Evans the suggestion that the choice of the parents should be accepted was seen as inappropriate by many people posting here. This was evidently on the basis that in this case, since another human being was involved, the interests of that human being should be paramount rather than the choice of the parents. The interests of Alfie, as interpreted by the hospital, being to have artificial support withdrawn, so as to die quickly. Which is in fact precisely the same reason on which the critique of the pro-choice position is based. There is another human being who is affected by the choice, and whose life will be ended.
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