Explain How Michael Tooley's Argument for the Moral Permissibility of Abortion

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Essay

Explain how Michael Tooley's argument for the moral permissibility of abortion makes use of this claim: "An entity cannot be the sort of thing that can desire that a subject of experiences and other mental states exists unless it possess the concept of such a subject. Moreover, an entity cannot desire that it itself continue existing as a subject of experiences unless it believes that it is now such a subject" (1972: 47).