The Ethics of Abortion
For purposes of our discussion we will be defining ‘abortion’ as follows:

Abortion = deliberate removal (or deliberate action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus from the womb of a human female, at the request of or through the agency of the mother, so as in fact to result in the death of the fetus.

That is to say, we want to know about the morality of uncoerced, human abortion—so for our purposes abortions are voluntary, deliberate removal of a human fetus.
Mary Warren, “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”, 1973

Warren defends an extremely permissive view on abortion, according to which abortion is morally permissible at any stage of the pregnancy and under any circumstances.

Warren considers the following anti-abortion argument:

1) It is wrong to kill innocent human beings.
2) Fetuses are innocent human beings.
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3) Therefore, it is wrong to kill fetuses.

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