Mary Anne Warren believes that the moral status of abortion can be determined based on our intuition that a fetus is not a person and is therefore not properly deserving of full moral rights. Unlike other pro-choice arguments, Warren does not attempt to justify abortion based on the claim that a woman's right to control her own body includes removing unwanted property such as a fetus. Warren rejects this justification, reasoning that we do not have the moral right to expel innocent people from our property when doing so results in their death.
Warren believes that the standard anti-abortion argument is vague in its use of the term, “human being” because that same word is used in two different senses and in two different premises. The traditional
Warren believes that the standard anti-abortion argument is vague in its use of the term, “human being” because that same word is used in two different senses and in two different premises. The traditional