Catherine Coles, September 17th.

"It is wrong to kill an innocent human being, a fetus is an innocent human being , therefore abortion is wrong."

The debate focuses on two distinct issues: (1) whether the human fetus has a right to life and (2) whether these rights equal or override the rights of the mother. A person's stance on this debate may depend greatly on their definition of a human being as opposed to a human life form. If the fetus is considered to be a human being from the moment of conception, then yes termination would be the wrongful ending of a life, but if being human is defined through having a certain level of self awareness and acknowledgment of your person, then the fetus is not yet a human being so aborting it would be as immoral as terminating a cluster of cancer cells, for example.

However, to qualify as a fetus, cells require a separate criteria - fetuses are potential human beings from the moment of conception. Their future contains potential......

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Title: The Ethics Of Abortion
Approximate Word Count: 1405
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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