Waterboarding and Feeding Tubes

Like those who would not admit that the technique of waterboarding is torture until they were subjected to it for five seconds, the pro-life materialists ought to be subjected to the conditions which they say are required to preserve life before prescribing their usage on others. They should be obliged to be unable to move or speak or communicate for a month, even a week, even three days, and be obliged to take the only nourishment through a feeding tube, while being cleaned, moved, have their excrement removed by assistants -- they would rapidly lose their moral certitude that this was 'preservation of life until natural death'.