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    It is not the case that The standard argument against abortion is negatively affected once key terms are properly distinguished.

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    • 1.The argument against abortion conflates 'right to life' with 'right to what is needed to sustain life'.
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    • 2.Thomson's thought experiment shows that these two rights are distinct.
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    • 3.If a central premise of an argument conflates distinct concepts, distinguishing them undermines the argument.
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    • 1.Thomson's violinist analogy fails to distinguish voluntary from involuntary conception, undermining its generalizability as Norcross and others have argued.
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    • 2.The right to life, as Marquis argues in 'Why Abortion is Immoral', is grounded in the deprivation of a future-like-ours, not merely in current biological function.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Distinguishing 'sustaining life' from 'right to life' presupposes that killing and letting die are morally equivalent, a premise contested by Frances Kamm and others in deontological traditions.
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    • 2.Actively terminating a fetus differs morally from withholding aid, meaning Thomson's distinction shifts rather than defeats the core anti-abortion premise about direct killing.
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