What Is Abortion Innocent

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Some would emphasize on the innocent aspect of unborn, saying that they haven’t committed any wrongs and so it’s prima facia wrong to kill someone who has done nothing to deserve death. I agree that unborn are innocent. However, not only in the moral sense but also in physical, psychological, and emotional senses. They are completely oblivious to whatever happen inside and outside of the womb. They are not self-aware and without an established life. Thus, abortion is not killing human lives since the personhood or livelihood have not formed. Therefore, it’s not immoral to allow them to die. Also, if it is wrong to kill the preborn, then it is also wrong to take an action that would force women to potentially end their lives, in the sense that

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