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Whose rights are presumptive?
A fetus is obviously a living thing. It shares all the characteristics of living things – namely, it grows organically, moves on its own, and exchanges energy with its environment. These are things we can observe without analyzing its chemical makeup, but if we did, we would find it is carbon based, like all life on earth, and has DNA with 46 chromosomes, which also marks it as human. So, a fetus is a human life. Period.
It is also an innocent life, and a life that has no voice. So, unbor...