Marquis considers two rival accounts to his theory that have different implications for the ethics of abortion; they are:
A) the ramified types theory and the noetic theory.
B) the standard-model and the non-standard model.
C) the discontinuation account and the desire account.
D) the serendipity effect and the stochastic effect.

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Marquis presents the discontinuation account (which holds that killing is wrong because it deprives a being of a valuable future) as his own theory, but notes that it is similar to the desire account (which holds that killing is wrong because it frustrates a being's desires). These two accounts have different implications for the ethics of abortion, with the desire account suggesting that it may be permissible to abort a being that does not have desires, while the discontinuation account suggests that it is wrong to deprive any being of a valuable future, even if it does not currently have desires. The other answer choices do not align with the accounts discussed by Marquis in relation to the ethics of abortion.

Marquis Considers Two Rival Accounts to His Theory That Have