Because an abortion kills a small person and every human being, regardless of age or degree of development, is extremely valuable and just as valuable as any other human being. Every human being came into being through conception and has its value not on the basis of what she can do, but only on the basis that she is human. The vast majority of abortions do not take place because the woman's life is threatened and therefore the vast majority of abortions are a violation of the unborn child's human value.