[NYFriend]

This isn't directly related to your post, but you gave me an idea. Let's say I have a health care proxy. I don't want to be kept on life support if I'm incapacitated, and will not recover. I believe that it wouldn't be worth it to live like this.

Can I impose this belief on other similarly situated people, on their behalf? (READ: kill people in coma's who have not filled out a health care proxy.)

[HumanaeVitae]

Brain dead individuals, by definition, will not recover. Unborn children, left unmolested, become 'born children'. I know you oppose abortion, but this one is pretty straightforward.

[AppyPappy]

Abortion is the opposite. With abortion, a doctor knowingly and with malice aforethought kills an unborn child. It's a deliberate act by the doctor against the child.

Let's say you believed that slavery should be legal. Can you enslave someone against their will for your own convenience?