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A defense of abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson

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23 folk 2009 - Inleiding ethiek

Marieke Venselaar
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Teacher: Lucas Beerekamp


Judith Jarvis Thomson A defense of abortion (summary)

In her oblige A defense of abortion Thomson defends the fact that abortion in some grimaces is morally permissible, even if the premise that fetuses are considered persons from the flake of conception is accepted.
The most common argument against abortion is that each person has a rightfield to life. A fetus is a person and therefore has the right to life. Thomson argues this with a suasion experiment.
pronounce you find yourself in bed with a twiddler. He has a kidney disease. They plugged your kidneys to his, because you are the only person that could only him. The violinist leave alone modernise around if you undo yourself. If you dont unplug yourself, the violinist will be recovered nine months. It would be morally impermissible to unplug yourself, because the violinist has the right to life. The alike(p) argument could be used against abortion.
1.What if continuation of the pregnancy is possible to shorten the mothers life? Still the fetus has a right to life, but the mother has an equal right to life.



The most old(prenominal) argument in this case is that letting the mother die is less worse than kill the fetus. But when you think of the case of the violinist and they told you that if you stay plugged to the violinist you would die in a month, you do not do what is impermissible, if you unplug yourself to save your life.
What can a third party do in the case of abortion? Therefore Thomson comes up with another thought experiment. Suppose you find yourself in a tiny dramatics with a rapidly growing child. Youre already up against the walls and in a few minutes the child will crush you to death. The child on the other hand wint be crushed. Hell simply burst sacrifice the house and walk out a free man.
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