Mary Anne Warren was a philosophy professor and notable for her beliefs on the topic of abortion. Warren's thoughts on the morality of abortion were formed based on who is included in the "moral community." His thoughts about who should be included in the moral community are based on “personhood.” To define personality, you must first define a human being. A human being can be thought of in two different senses, a moral human sense and a genetic human sense. In a moral sense, human beings can be thought of as people who are part of a moral community. In the genetic sense, humans are simply any physical being classified as being of the human species. From this it can be concluded that a person is a human being in the moral sense. Furthermore, a person's characteristics must be defined to differentiate moral beings from genetic humans. It is widely accepted that the criterion of personality consists of consciousness (ability to feel pain), reasoning, self-motivation, communication and self-awareness. When Mary Anne Warren lays out her ideas on this topic she says that it is not imperative that a person meet all of these requirements, the first two would be sufficient. We may therefore be led to believe that not all human beings will be considered persons. When we apply this criterion to the human beings around us, it is obvious that most of us are part of the moral community. However, when this criterion is applied to fetuses, they are simply genetic humans. Fetuses, because they are genetically human, are not included in the moral community and therefore need not be treated as if they have moral rights. (Controversial Moral Issues, p.187). This idea is true because being in the moral community goes hand in hand with… the medium of paper… This idea respects the adult person in the moral community, not the child. It can be compared to the idea that it is wrong to destroy someone's home or natural resources. (Disputed Moral Issues, p.189). Abortion is one of the most controversial topics of this time. Many people have very different opinions about the rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn child. Mary Anne Warren is pro-choice and believes that abortion is not considered a moral issue because the fetus is not part of the moral community. Unlike her, John Stuart Mill would have seen it as a moral issue and considered the moral rights of fetuses. I believe that abortion is not a moral issue, up to a certain point in the pregnancy. Warren's controversial beliefs on this topic have been criticized as too immoral, but she has continued to prove her theory and is rational.