Abortion as murder?: A response

Journal of Social Philosophy 26 (1):129-146 (1995)
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I argue that people who believe fetuses have the same moral right to life as the rest of us have sufficient reasons to refuse to classify abortion as legal murder and to refuse to punish abortion as severely as legal murder.

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