The Ontology of Abortion: Human Being and the Right to Life

What is a person? What is a thing? Abortion vs. Infanticide

Ontology deals with the nature of Being. It tries to answer the question “what is there?” with the shortest possible correct answer, in order to capture the essence of what it means to Be. The Being that matters the most to the abortion question is human Being. What, in other words, does it mean to be human? This question is not a purely academic one, because humans have certain rights that other beings don’t have. Consequently, in…