Don Marquis is correct in that the harm in killing is that your depriving the person of all their future valuable experiences and they would have had these experiences ahead of them. Their future experiences are valuable because there instrumental goods, the things that lead us to other goods. There are also intrinsic goods and both good are lost if their killed. Also by aborting a fetus it is punishing an unborn child who committed no crime, which unethical since it was not justified. Another thing is since life begins as a fetus, abortion is like murder as it the act of depriving one of
Don Marquis is correct in that the harm in killing is that your depriving the person of all their future valuable experiences and they would have had these experiences ahead of them. Their future experiences are valuable because there instrumental goods, the things that lead us to other goods. There are also intrinsic goods and both good are lost if their killed. Also by aborting a fetus it is punishing an unborn child who committed no crime, which unethical since it was not justified. Another thing is since life begins as a fetus, abortion is like murder as it the act of depriving one of