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Since abortion is legal, it is clear that future POTENTIAL is not a valid factor in determining the status of something. In other words, it doesn't matter that what is carried in the mother's womb has the POTENTIAL to be a human, from the perspective of abortion it is not PRESENTLY a human and therefore is property of the mother and not its own life. This is necessary for abortion to be legal, otherwise the thing inside the mother would have rights of its own - including the right to life.
As such, whether the mother PLANNED to give birth to the child or not is of no consequence in terms of murder. The question is, what is the object inside the mother's womb considered AT THE TIME OF THE MURDER. So then, the object can either be considered property of the mother or a life in its own right. It cannot be considered one under one circumstance and the other under another - it is either a human life or not. In other words, a murder that takes place during a time period in which it is legal for the mother to have an abortion must be considered to be a murder of ONE person accompanied by the destruction of that person's property (imagine if a person murdered a woman and killed her dog as well).
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