1. Abortion and the Nature of Human Life
She declares, "a fetus is not a person, hence not the sort of entity to which it is proper to ascribe full moral rights [Warren 1]." While conventional wisdom proposes the claim that life begins at the point of conception, the right to life necessitates being a "member of [a] moral community, the set of beings with full and equal moral rights, for the simple reason that it is not a person and that it is personhood, and not genetic humanity...which is the basis for membership in this community [Warren 2].... " Of course, this pretense assumes that fetuses possess life, whic...
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