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2 Woman vs. fetus: In the 1980s, the focus of the abortion controversy shifted to the relative rights of the prospective mother and her potential offspring.
Dworkin reduces the ontological status of the fetus to an issue of ownership by calling it "her" fetus, using an assumption central to the validation of the master-slave relationship.
The NYT runs a story inside saying that a new study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute has determined that in 1996 there were 650 "intact dilation and extraction" abortions, procedures where the fetus is partially delivered and then aborted.
Some diseases of pregnancy are apparently due to conflicts between the genetically nonidentical tissues of mother and fetus (Haig 2002).
That's because most people would feel that it is wrong to do elective abortions--abortions when the health of the mother is not at risk and the fetus is not seriously deformed--beyond that point.