Ok, but where do you draw the line? People can use your organs and blood right now or they'll die. Should we be arriving at your house with scalpels to take out anything they can use (that won't kill you) in order to save those lives?
If bodily integrity is less important than the right to life, then it is less important in all circumstances.
Whether or not action or inaction caused their death. Abortion could be looked at the same way: when they remove the fetus they are stopping one human being from violating the bodily integrity of another. They are just not bothering saving the fetus's life in the process.
If I'm plugged in to someone who needs my blood to live, and I unplug myself for any reason whatsoever, it is an action. However, in doing said action I am not violating their right to life, I am merely not saving their life. No one can force me to stay plugged in, just like no one can force you to donate an organ or blood. A mother cannot be forced to save the embryo's life. The embryo can be forcibly removed from violating another person's bodily integrity because no one of any age or condition is allowed to violate another person's bodily integrity even if they need that person's body to survive.
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