Stephen Schwartz says that the brain-dead and the unborn are not similar in any relevant way, because the brain-dead are former persons who are “no more,” while the unborn are actual persons who are “not yet” fully developed. He writes, “We throw out food that has lost its nourishing power, that has it ‘no more’: we do not, however, throw out food that has ‘not yet’ developed its nourishing power. We wait, and give it a chance. This is what we must do with human beings in their embryonic stage.”
