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    It is not the case that The life-saving analogy fails because the broken leg victim exists prior to and independent of the harm-causing act, unlike the person brought into existence.

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    • 1.If causation grounds duty, deliberately causing someone to exist creates causal responsibility equal to causing injury.
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    • 2.The dependence relationship matters morally regardless of timing: both scenarios involve one person's vital dependence on another's body.
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    • 3.Prior existence is morally arbitrary. What matters is current vulnerability and whether we caused it, not temporal sequence.
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    • 1.Duties to rescue differ from duties regarding creation: we lack obligations to create beings, but have duties to aid existing ones.
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    • 2.The broken leg victim's interests pre-exist the harm, creating direct causal responsibility. Pregnancy involves creating the interest itself.
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    • 3.Analogies require relevant similarity. Creating a person differs fundamentally from injuring one in ways that matter morally.
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