A Defense Of Abortion, By Judith Jarvis Thomson

To start with I would like to say that honestly I have never been exposed in some argues on the topic of abortion. Consequently, this theme is new and is not habitual for me. Have never read any papers that are discussing different points of view on abortion before I was really inspired and amazed of the depth and clearness Judith Jarvis Thomson uses in her “A Defense of Abortion”. The point of this essay is to explain and think on the argument she provides in her work. The first thing that I opened reading Thomson’s article was how thought experiments can affect one’s decision and even change it during the process. Choosing between three of them, I would like to talk about one that was the most interesting and decisive for me-famous violinist experiment. She makes us feel like somewhere in the world one morning famous violinist finds out that he has a kidney disease and the only one who can help him survive and go on living is you. Take into consideration, you do not know him and hear of this person for the first time. Also, there is no point denying the fact you are not 1% took part in poisoning or making some harm to the violinist to be ill. Later you are put to sleep with the help of medicine, stolen and moved to one bed with this violinist. Waking up one morning you notice that your blood circulations are connected and your blood used to clean his for the time of 9 month. Now the most interesting part starts and rules of the game, as Thomson says, are the following: you can choose one way, the first is to leave things as they are
My opinion is that there was probably no better way to contemplate and esteem the problem of abortion so clear and lucid Thomson lets us with the help of her thought