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For those who say ‘abortion is murder’, presumably the killing of a human foetus is the killing of a human being. There may be circumstances that excuse the killing of a (born) human being, but then there are also circumstances that would excuse the killing of a foetus. There are those who say there is a difference between killing a foetus and killing an individual being; although it is not easy to formulate this difference in any general way. (For example, ‘It is only when a child has been born that it has a separate existence or a separate life.’)
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Phillips, D.Z. (1999). Abortion. In: Phillips, D.Z. (eds) Moral Questions. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598690_13
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