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Introduction
In the essay I consider Marquis’ argument for the conclusion that abortion is presumptively very wrong. I agree that abortion is wrong since it is like murdering a living being that has come to existence at the moment of conception. Second, abortion makes us to kill someone who has a future like us and lastly, Abortion challenges Kantianism which includes protecting mankind.
Response
Every living thing in terms of breathing, being conscious has come to existence at the moment of notion. The sign define ones existence. Killing anything that is defined alive or conscious is wrong to kill. It is taken as a murder. It is not only making us take control of the nature but also erasing the existence of something that might be a great loss to other and that would to be missed by their absence ( 367). It is like taking the control of another person who might has as much right to live and experience as much as we do. We have no right as a human to take away someone lives even if they are inside us. It is the great loss others would experience due to death of the living (367). Like every other human or living thing including us has the right to come into the world. We have no right to take someone live just because they are in our control for a certain period of time. It would be like for example, just because we work in office and the boss control us by ordering his employees means him doing anything with us. Abortion is like taking the opportunity from one to live a life like all of us and experience.
However, there are something’s we need to understand before getting to the conclusion that, any living thing is live and that it has a right to live. It is very important to know what we mean by living, becaus...

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... universalizable and shows clearly that the action is wrong. Women who do Abortion are treating innocent lives as a mere means and not as an end. If the women who has the right to decide whether she wants to keep the child should leave it to the child. If the women can have the right to live than any living thing including the innocent adult human being as well. It should be left to the individuals living being of how much their life is worth and what they should. We cannot challenge nature as that is how it came including a child being born in her mother womb, however that also not gives a control to decide whether one innocent adult human being should live or not. It is like the doctor can choose who he wants to save since the mother and child in his control and since he is the only doctor in the room so therefore he has right to make decisions of human beings.

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