Don Marquis's Arguments Against Abortion

There is a massive moral debate over abortion in America and many other countries. Murdering human beings has been called severely immoral for a very long time. The arguments for abortion are not only if the fetus applies to this rule, but also our basic rights as humans. Some of the strongest arguments to date on either side are A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson and Why Abortion is Immoral by Don Marquis. I will argue in defense of abortion using these arguments.
Overview of the Argument There is many arguments against abortion. Part of them argue that the fetus is a person at the moment of conception. To that Thomson asks the question: At what point is conception? “Before this point the thing is not a person, after this point it is a person.” It is an arbitrary choice and can be given no good answer. With it being so unclear, and the arguments very poor, Thomson does not deny the fetus as a person. We are inclined to agree that at some point the fetus has become a human person long before birth. By the tenth week it has already developed arms, legs, a face, and has brain activity. She also denies the premise, the fetus is not a person at conception. A newly fertilized ovum is no more than a clump of cells. Just as a seed is not a tree, it is not yet a person. However, she drops it there and
The right to life, still, does not allow an abortion in this case. This runs into another point Thomson makes where the pregnancy would shorten the mother’s life. Some still say abortion is impermissible even to save the mother’s life. Both people, mother and fetus, have a right to life. Presumably their right to life is equal. Is a coin flip acceptable, or should the fact that the mother also has a right to her own body be accounted for? Do the sum of her rights outweigh the fetus’s life? There are still ways the abortion is still seen as impermissible to