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As Reiman says, "it is so natural to us to think this way," namely, of the fetus "as a personlike victim-which is a moral status that a not-yet-existing fetus lacks."Id. at 195.This in turn is tightly linked to the assumption, which Reiman grants and perhaps even concedes, that "the being that traverses the span from cohception to death is a self-identical individual.That is a more or less natural extension of the common belief that a human being from birth to death is a selfidentical individual-the one named by its proper name."Id.