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Abortion: Arguments
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A final argument about abortion, such as Communitarians might contribute, could be that it is "society" that must ultimately make a judgment about the constructive or destructive effects of allowing abortion on demand. Such an argument might become more acute once we realize that the typical feminist connection between abortion and poverty is wrong: Their view is that large families create poverty and that an increase in wealth, freedom, and self-fulfillment can only come with the employment of every possible means of birth control, including abortion. Historically this is clearly wrong.
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A third set of arguments against abortion would be philosophical arguments. A key philosophical question is where do you draw the line? Put another way, when does a human being become a person?
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One of the main arguments against abortion is: "Fetus is a human. All humans have a right to live. Therefore, fetus has a right to live." The argument is due to a confusion about who or what is a human. From biological point of view, "a human is a collection of cells that form an organism and have identical genome corresponding to subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens." From the perspective of human rights, "a human is a conscious object"[5].
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