Pro-Life: Continuity
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A number of writers, including C. Everett Koop, have made an argument similar to the following: A young child is clearly a person and it is wrong to kill it except under very unusual circumstances. As we move backward from such a child to an infant, a fetus, and finally to the embryo from which it came, there is no point at which its nature changes abruptly. There is therefore never a point at which we have good reason to change our view of its personhood, its rights, or the morality of killing it. There is no time at which we are justified in saying "before this point it is permissible to abort." Therefore, with the possibility of some unusual exceptions, abortion is just as wrong as killing a child.

Reference: Koop uses the continuity argument in The Right to Live the Right to Die.

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