Abortion is a Form of Euthanasia, and Should Be Treated as Such

My opponent mentions disabled children before saying he was responding to the 'useless existence' qualification for mercy killing, making me think he intended the disabled point to line up with physical pain but it sounds like an argument for that being a useless existence so I will have to respond to it that way, for I don't see how being born blind and any other random disability is necessarily painful. Even if a child is born a vegetable it has it can still inspire hope among its parents as it lives on. many cures for diseases come out of research motivated by parents with children with that very diseases. Every disabled child that instilled this motivation in their parents or just empathetic third parties to further research in cures for disabilities or being able to adapt with them is serving a purpose. An unwanted child does not equate in moral terms for justifying invoking death with comatose patients because even if they suffer who's situation would you rather be in? the child's or the comatose? the child's of course! because you can move, control your hands, control your legs, and CONTROL YOUR DESTINEY! presence of such fundamental hope in ones future would drastically make in impact on the morality of killing the child as opposed to an aged comatose patient without such hope. You bring up life support expenses for the comatose and that children are expensive too. But for children's case the financial evaluation behind them gets more complicated than what you pay to keep them alive like for food and shelter. Its not unheard of for some to lie claiming have kids just so their fiancï¿½s get easier from tax deductions. In businesses like farming for example the owner will not just have his wife pop out one expensive child but 12! all because having the free labor is part of how he runs his farm. as your child grows he will be able to help you in whatever work you are doing in some simple manner making your tasks easier. even if you own no business, once you've raised the child to dutifully clean your house while your at work, that is one of tedious task of daily living you can have off your mind and one ounce of your sanity you can keep when you worry about the dishes no more. Then there is the economic value of the day this investment really pays off, when your children support you as an old fart. All of this is not even considering the value in a child outside of terms in raw tender. we could just want children to make us money so we can buy things that make us happy, but many enjoyable thing you can get with your child and skip the step of money. like playing ball with him/her or some other game you love. can you sing or play guitar? I bet your child can learn to do so too with you. Their is immense amount of potential for how a child can affect your life, but for a comatose patient there is very few kinds of future potential. because of this they cannot be considered to equate. You seem to think many of the involuntary murder would be painful. this is not necessarily so. in a lynching, when the knot is done properly, it is quite painless as the death is instantaneous when the neck is snapped. or in death by electrical chair when a wet sponge is placed on the head before strapping them into the chair the electricity goes strait to the brain killing the victim immediately without them suffering. Some times in history if a person had it out for the individual being executed they would rig the noose so that the neck wouldn't snap and they would strangle instead or put a dry sponge on the forehead (like on The Green Mile) and painful suffering will happen but if handled properly their is a use for these executions that is painless. If the homicide murderer shoots you in the head your brain will be scrambled far faster than your pain receptors can reach it to tell you you are in pain. poison of course is another murder method that can be painless.