Abortion involves the intentional killing of an innocent human being. Many people believe that in certain circumstances, abortion is morally permissible. So, how is it possible for abortion not to be murder?
             Murder unquestionably violates a person's right to life. What aspects give a person a right to life? Why is it considered murder to kill an innocent person but not an animal? Are we morally superior to animals? In ethics, a being with full moral status, and therefore full moral rights, is called a person. If all human beings are persons then there is no problem. In other words, is it necessary and sufficient to be a human being in order to be considered a person?
             The notion that not all persons are human beings is one that is widely held, but not recognized the slightest bit. Most Christians, for example, believe God to be a person. However, few would claim that He is a biological human being. There have to be several criteria to be considered a person.
             1.) Consciousness (of objects and events external and/or internal to the being, and in particular the capacity to feel pain);
             2.) Reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems);
             3.) Self-motivated activity (activity which is relatively independent of either genetic or direct external control);
             4.) The capacity to communicate, by whatever means, messages of an indefinite variety of types, that is, not just with an indefinite number of possible contents, but on indefinitely many topics;
             5.) The presence of self-concepts, and self-awareness, either individual or racial, or both. (Warren, n.p.)
             It is possible for abortion not to be murder because persons can be murdered and fetuses are not persons. There is a criteria to be a person, and fetuses do not fit the criteria. Abortion does not violate a fetus' right to life because a fetus is not something that can have a right
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