The Value Of Human Life

What is the value of a person, and should that person be eliminated from society because he or she has perceived lesser value in the eyes of someone else? Do we kill the disabled because some have deficiencies that others don't have? Many elderly have difficulty functioning without a tremendous amount of support. Do we kill them because they may be unwanted or a burden even to their own family? What about a person who is in a coma from a car accident? At that moment they are not at the same human state of alertness that most of us are. Should we have the choice to kill them knowing that they even might come out of the coma?

Why then do we often give so little human value to the unborn? Just because they cannot function as some other person thinks a human should function they are inherently a person. They are at the stage of their life that they are supposed to be in, relying on the mother to support them in the womb. The unborn doesn't at one time in his life change to a different entity. He is a human at conception, at the fetus stage, the toddler stage, and throughout life. He has a nature that is human and should be treated that way, just as we treat the previously mentioned examples. All humans have an inherent value no matter how they may function or what stage of their life they are in.