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Unborn

Morula, Susan Lockhart. Image via Wellcome Collection.

People who want to ban abortion often refer to fetuses, regardless of their stage of development, as . Curious, I looked up definitions of . I liked this one for how it made my mind spin: . If a being hasn’t begun, then can it exist? If

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