Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?

I believe abortion should be a personal choice, not a legal issue. There are many different debates as to why abortion is wrong, but I agree with Mary Anne Warren's argument. She argues that biologically the fetus is a person, but does not meet all the characterisitics of a human being in a moral sense, therefore it would not have the full right to life. The characteristics she uses to define a human being are having the ability to reason, the ability to feel pain consciously, the ability to have motives and goals, to ability to communicate and having a sense of itself, none of which a fetus would meet. Her point is that to act morally, a person must be conscious and aware of themselves and have the ability to reason. One might say this is not a stable argument, because the fetus has the potential to develop these characteristics, and Warren takes this into consideration. She argues that while they do have the potential, they do not hold the capacity of any of these characteristics. For example, while someone is asleep, they meet none of these ... but they DO hold the capacity. Then is infanticide acceptable? Surely the infant does not meet all of the characteristics. But Warren notes that not all the the guidelines have to be met. Babies are conscious and feel pain, and they are independent from their mother. Babies have the ability to reason, whereas fetuses do not. I think her argument is consistent, being that of a Utilitarian's, but there are faults in her debate. She depends on the fact that infanticide is wrong solely because people would prefer them not to die, which is not a supportive reason, but at least she sticks to Utilitarian points of view.