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Don Marquis Argument Analysis

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Don Marquis, a theorist on abortion, debated that abortion was morally wrong and that anti-abortionists should consider fetuses’ human beings (Jones & Kooistra, 2011).
He stated the term “prima facie” which is Latin for “at first glance”, which means something is accepted as true unless proven to be untrue (Jones & Kooistra, 2011).
In Marquis’s argument he stated that it cannot be proven nor disproven that a fetus is considered a living being. His outlook on the matter is, if we as humans believe that killing another human being (i.e., adult, child) is wrong, but we do not understand why, then why is it acceptable to kill a fetus when we do not know if it is considered a living being (Jones & Kooistra, 2011).

Judith Jarvis Thomson, another

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