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This is an inhumane way of looking at abortion. By solely focusing on the fetus’ life, they completely ignore the women’s right to her life and body. Imagine a society consisting of two citizens and a government. One of the citizens is a man who has kidney failure and will die unless he receives a kidney transplant. The other citizen is a woman who is a healthy potential organ donor. The question posed by the argument is: would the government be right to force the woman to donate a kidney to the man? Most people’s reaction is to say no. When it comes down to it the man is not entitled to the kidney in any way. The woman has the right to exercise ownership over her kidney by refusing to donate the organ for the sustenance of another, even if it means that a person with intrinsic value will die. By denying the man the kidney, the argument also runs into that, it would also be wrong for the government to force a pregnant woman to donate her uterus for the sustenance of a fetus even if it means that the fetus will die as a result of that refusal (“The Kidney Donation Argument”). By comparing abortion to a kidney transplant, it is clear to see that the argument of pro-life is unreasonable because, “No one has the right to use another’s body as a life support system without her consent” (Cozic and Petrikin