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Victim of rape is entitled to defend herself against continuing effect of attack.
They seek to prevent conception not as the coming to be new human life but as the invasion of her body by her assailants bodily substance. It is solely to relieve the mother of continued bodily effects of the rape which would be unjust to the unborn child who is wholly innocent of father's wrongdoing.
Examination of sex test done to allay anxiety or curiocity are justifiable only if they involve no significant risk to the child. But if sex determination test done with thought of arranging or carrying out abortion, i) the result show something undesirable is already willing conditionally abortion violates justice, law, religion & morals. ;:
Anne Warren argues fetuses don't have consciousness, reasoning power, self motivated activity, capacity to communicate & self awareness, so can't be considered human persons, but are only potential persons having merely potential rights & cant over ride woman's right to control her body.
Answer to the argument is that fetus is a human being & therefore abortion is murder.
Mere ownership of body does not give right to kill innocent people whom you find your property. Fetus is separate individual entity gestating in your body. It is unjust to expel innocent person from your property if doing so will result in death. It is inappropriate to describe a woman's body as her property & is mistake to argue for right to abortion is derived from the right to own & regulate property..
It is universal assumption that if fetus is human being with right to life then abortion is wrong except when necessary to save woman's life is ought to be prohibited.
Potential person has right to life, & destroying is unjust. Abortion with rare exception is seriously immoral; & same as killing an adult human being. Anti abortionist allow in some cases such as rape, multiple pregnancy to save remaining fetuses life, or when mother's life is threatened means to save one life, other's life is sacrificed. or in case of handicapped or disability in prenatal diagnosis found, may be morally permissible. But every religion in any case don't permit abortion. All religion regards it as killing or murder.
Moral community is set of being with full & equal moral rights. What sort of entity is inalienable rights to life, liberty & pursuit of happiness? Human being is full fledged member of community and fetuses are human in moral sense. Whatever genetically human is also morally human Genetic humanity is sufficient for moral humanity. Traits
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