Argical Summary: Her Analogy Of Unplugging The Violinist '

I do not think for one bit that her analogy of “unplugging the violinist” analogy works because everyone has a right to their own body and choices, unless in the case of rape. Her analogy about “unplugging the violinist” is off the chart and is not similar to pregnancy. In some cases, mothers have the choice to have intercourse with another human to make a child, while others do not have the choice because of rape. Mothers choose to have an abortion or to not have an abortion. Others might influence the mother’s decision, but the decision is ultimately the mother’s choice because she is the one that has to go through the process and procedure of getting the baby aborted. Whether or not a child gets conceived because of rape, every single person’s
There are many types of contraceptives like birth control. Men and women have access to these contraceptives, for their own gender, in order to prevent pregnancy. It takes two to tango, so whatever the outcome is of their intercourse, they are going to have to live with it because they volunteered to proceed in intercourse. The “burglar” analogy makes no sense because I have never heard of an individual opening their window and then having a burglar randomly comes into their house. A window could be on the third floor of a house and what is the burglar going to do, get a ladder and climb up to the window. Burglars do not want to be identified and also want to be sneaky. The “people-seed” analogy also does not make sense because if someone wants to open their window to let air in, so be it. If the window becomes defective, patch the window up, but getting pregnant voluntarily has outcomes that those couples have to deal with. Voluntarily doing an action is not on
I do not think Thompson argues the beginning point well because parents are responsible for the baby at conception, whether is it setting up the nursery, giving the baby healthy nutrients, and also not harming the baby by drinking or smoking. If the parents cannot provide for the baby, then place the baby up for adoption and carry the baby to full term because that baby has so much life and purpose in the world. Even if the parents have taken every precaution out there to not get pregnant, but then end up getting pregnant, the parents still have full responsibility because voluntarily having intercourse can produce a baby. Parenthood does mark a difference between pregnancy and violinist illustration because parents have to nurture that baby and take