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Mercer agreed that the unborn are human beings, and that abortion is the deliberate killing of a human being, but argued that the notion of human being is not a morally relevant concept. Individuals are not special by virtue of their species membership, he said, but become persons and worthy of protection because they possess certain ethically salient properties such as the ability to experience pain or pleasure, self-consciousness, and rationality.