Considerações acerca da questão do aborto (meditação acerca do fundamental em causa)

Not bearing in mind all the polemic discussions on the question of abortion, we centre our attention on the fundamental issue, the comprehension of the reality of that which is the "thing that can be aborted". What is its ontological statute? What is its relation to the human action that decides on the possibility of its ontology? What ethical and political importance does the decision of what to do with the "thing that can be aborted" have?