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This should be a horror movie plot
Yeah, that's the kind of persistent vegetative state you don't want to wake up from.
But really this kind of abuse of people in these states goes way beyond pregnancy. If we're willing to do this to women, why not keep vegetative patients of both sexes alive for years as continuous blood donors? I could easily see someone justifying that, especially if the victim has a rare or that universal donor blood type.
Or how about organ donation? We do currently take organs from deceased donors, but usually it's a one time deal. When it comes time, if the person is a willing donor, you pull the plug, and then harvest whatever organs you can that you have a recipient for at the moment. But you could make that a lot more efficient if you could keep the donor alive for a long time, perhaps years. Just keep them alive, waiting for someone in need. Someone needs the first kidney? Give it to them. Someone needs a second kidney? Give it to them and put the donor on permanent dialysis. Someone needs a hear or lung? Take the donor's and keep them going via artificial means. Or maybe we could take skin graft after skin graft, growing new skin again and again. Treat them like sheep being shorn. It's the difference between having to use a butchered animal up all at once vs being able to freeze most of it for later. Hospitals could have whole wards of these donors caught for years in a state of half-disassembled living death.
This is an ethical Pandora's box we REALLY do not want to open.
I'm cool with anencephalic humans/clones, with or without genetic engineering to reduce rejection, being used for spare parts.
Have you read House of the Scorpion?
I have not. Looks like it's YA, which I tend to steer away from. Is it full of tropes and oversimplification like Divergent or Mockingjay stuff, or is it better than that?
I mean its alright it just covers this topic exactly while also not showing it integrated into society at large too well.
That horror movie would make any HP Lovecraft stuff look like a children's book.
They did a comedy with Arnold and Danny devito called JR