Steinbock bases her defense of abortion rights on the fact that an early fetus

a. is nonsentient, and therefore has no interests of its own.
b. has no soul; ensoulment does not occur until late in pregnancy.
c. is not a member of the social community, and thus has no rights under the social
contract.
d. cannot reason, and therefore cannot be a fully moral being.
e. lacks any status as an independent functioning being, and thus cannot be the subject
of rights claims.


a

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