According to philosophers Michael Tooley and Mary Anne Warren, the anti-abortion argument involves an equivocation over the term

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Tooley and Warren argue that the anti-abortion argument conflates "human being" in a genetic sense (as a member of the species Homo sapiens) with "human being" in a moral sense (as a being with a right to life). This equivocation, they argue, leads to confusion and flawed reasoning in the abortion debate.

According to Philosophers Michael Tooley and Mary Anne Warren, the Anti-Abortion