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    Supports→The standard argument against abortion is negatively affected once key terms are properly distinguished.

    Once 'right to life' is properly specified as the right not to be deprived of one's future, the disconnection objection dissolves since the fetus's claim is not reducible to resource-use.

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    Key Terms

    Claim(as used in legal and ethical arguments)
    A formal demand or assertion that you have the right to receive something (like money or an apology) because you were wronged.
    Reducible to(as used in philosophy generally)
    Able to be broken down into or explained using simpler parts; when something complicated can be shown to just be made of something simpler.
    Specify(general usage in the statement)
    To state clearly and in exact detail; to say precisely what something is.
    resource-use(as used in abortion ethics)
    The consumption or use of another person's body, blood, organs, time, or other physical or biological materials needed for survival.
    right to life(Thomson's distinction drawn from the violinist thought experiment)

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    A right not to be killed, distinguished from the right to what is needed to sustain life.
    the disconnection objection(as used in abortion ethics)
    A philosophical challenge arguing that a fetus's right to life is disconnected from or independent of its use of the mother's body and resources.

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