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Giving Birth V.S. Abortion The issue of abortion has mostly been concern about morality as the idea expressed in Joel Feinberg’s article. Feinberg constructed the following argument (Page 270): 1. A fetus is an innocent human being. 2. It is always wrong to kill an innocent human being. 3. Therefore, it is always wrong to kill a fetus. (Page 284) He described that abortion can only be justified when (1) to save the mother from the most extreme harm or else (2) to save the mother from a lesser harm when the pregnancy was the result of the wrongful acts of others for which the woman had no responsibility, or when (3) it can be claimed for a defective or diseased fetus that it has a right not to be born. Even Feinberg constructed his article and argument carefully detailed, however, it’s difficult for me to accept his claims. Abortion is a much deeper and broader issue than just about to kill an innocent human being. Stated by Virginia Held (Page 286) “ To the extent that we recognize that there is more to human life and more to human death than can be comprehended through a biological framework, so should we recognize that there is more to