If someone thinks that women ought to be able to exercise control over their reproduction, and that abortion is a legitimate means of exercising that control th

If someone thinks that women ought to be able to exercise control over their reproduction, and that abortion is a legitimate means of exercising that control that accrues benefits to individuals and societies by being legal, then the belief that human life begins at conception, being a traditional argument against the moral permissibility of abortion, could seem harmful. The same applies to stem cell research.