In Their Replies, Nathan Nobis and Christopher Tollefsen Both Offer

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Essay

In their replies, Nathan Nobis and Christopher Tollefsen both offer competing accounts of what grounds human rights. In your essay, explain the authors' disagreement, drawing from both of their accounts. Then, briefly describe the extent to which you take the human rights issue to be an important one in the abortion debate. In other words, how much rides on whether human fetuses have rights? Can abortion be justified even if they do?

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