There is a huge difference between a person in a coma and a fetus . You should already understand that difference , and to suggest that I think it ' s fine to kill a person in a coma tells me that you clearly don ' t understand my position . So let me clarify . I believe that abortion is okay not just because the life doesn ' t have consciousness , but because there ' s no actual entity involved . No identity . A person in a coma has memory and experience and feelings and probably told someone at some point before the coma that they like to be alive . Unless it ' s incredibly unlikely that they wake up from the coma , generally people make the decision to keep their comatose loved one alive . A fetus is different , because literally the only similarity between a fetus and a person is biology . That is the only similarity . And I don ' t base my moral idea of death on whether or not a biological life is being terminated I base it on whether a experiencebased life is being terminated . A comatose person already has an identity . A fetus does not . because non of them are sentient and are also nonhuman by your definitions . That ' s not true . I have the same definition of human as you do . I ' m merely explaining that there are situations where just because something is biologically human doesn ' t mean you have to treat like any born person . An embryo is also , biologically speaking , a human individual . But it ' s still just a cluster of cells . A fetus , while more similar to a person , especially in form , doesn ' t have any of the qualities of a person that actually lead us to feel bad when we commit murder . They don ' t have a niche , they don ' t have memories , they don ' t have anything but DNA .