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In both of Marquis and Tomson’s point of view on abortion, I felt it very interesting on how both of them felt about abortion. We saw, that Marquis was arguing why he thought that abortion is morally wrong. Whereas, Tomson’s view about abortion, was why abortion is morally acceptable. On Tomson’s view of why he thinks that abortion is morally acceptable, is he gave a couple of views good examples on his point of view on having why abortion is acceptable and how is view can save the mother’s life, despite that it is morally wrong to kill an innocent child. Then, we also saw some good examples of why Marquis’ examples such as the loss of future of a fetus.
One of Tomson’s view on abortion that I never thought about was, if the baby
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