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You cannot kill a baby nor can you kill an adult and a fetus will grow into a person in which you cannot kill so why would you be able to kill a fetus? Patric Lee, author of The Pro-Life Argument From Substantial Identity: A Defense argues that it is wrong to kill an unborn human being because she is identical to an entity that, at some time later in her development, everyone agrees it is wrong to kill (249). Lee argues “What makes it wrong to kill you or me now would also have been present in the killing of you or me when we existed as adolescents, as toddlers, as infants, but also when we existed as fetuses or embryos. Now, I understand that this argument but we cannot say in black and white that just because life may begin at contraceptive and even if life did start at contraception, the rights of the woman gets thrown out and then she is treated as an incubator because she is forced to give birth. A birth should be a gift and a privilege, if everyone is forced to have a child out of their will then “rather than a privilege and a gift, these aspects of being female become an unbearable burden (MIT Know The …show more content…
Ted G. Jelen author of the paper The Clergy and Abortion, about the different viewpoints of 17 ministers from the Midwestern communities. Those ministers range from the age of 25-65 with education levels from 10th grade to post-graduate degrees (134). Throughout the interview all the ministers had little disagreement on the issue. But, no one took a decisive pro-choice or pro-life stance. But each had subtle differences in their stance in when abortion should be allowed or allowed at