Analysis Of Judith Thomson's Article, A Defense Of Abortion
In Judith Thomson’s article “A Defense of Abortion”, Thomson proposed an interesting thought experiment. She asked the readers to imagine finding themselves waking up into a situation, where they were kidnapped and have a famous unconscious violinist, who suffered from a fatal kidney, plugged into their body. Later, they found out that they alone have the right blood type to help the violinist and to unplug themselves from him would have killed him. All they need to do is to have the violinist circulatory system plugged into their body for nine months. All for nine months, that’s it.
Suppose that I am the only person in this planet that can save the violinist’s life by plugging his blood circulatory system into my body for nine months. In