Summary: A Defense Of Abortion

In the context of Thomson’s article, A Defense of Abortion, the violinist is a famous violinist that was found unconscious and has a fatal kidney alignment. The benefactor is yourself, who was determined to have the same blood type as the violinist. With having the same blood type, the benefactor was kidnapped and their kidneys were used to extract poisons from the violinists’ blood as well as your own. If the violinist is unplugged from you, he will die; but after 9 months he will have recovered from his kidney ailment, and you can safely be unplugged from him. This situation is analogous to the abortion issue because a mother is the benefactor while the unborn baby is the violinist. The mother can be attached to the baby and if the mother
This loss of a child brings upon the counter-argument that abortion is morally wrong because killing is wrong. In the case of abortion, the mother is not directly killing the child, but a third-party is ultimately responsible for killing the child. Although in Thomson example of defending abortion involving a health risk for the mother, there are scenarios where abortion is strictly a choice with health problems. In cases where young teenagers become pregnant, many of them consider the decision of abortion. There are no health scares that require the need for the abortion, but simply because the young mother was not ready to have a child at a young age. Ultimately, this case shows abortion used as a way to escape or dismiss
In the article, An Argument that Abortion is Wrong, the writer Don Marquis illustrates the meaning of this argument by stating, “My being killed deprives me of more than does my being robbed or beaten or harmed in some other way because my being killed deprives me of all of the value of my future, not merely part of it” (Marquis, p. 5). This quote is significant to his argument on why abortion is immoral because it illustrates the fact that in terms of abortion, if an unborn child is killed, it causes the fetus to lose a future of value. Losing a future of value inclines that the unborn child had the opportunity to live a life of value that could have impacted the world. However, due to abortion, that value of life is gone.
In terms of a counter-argument, a reasonable individual can make the claim that abortion is not immoral because the reproductive choice empowers women by giving them control over their own bodies. With that being said, it’s important to understand that abortion is not directly affecting the people of the third-party, it’s affecting the mother’s that decided to go through with abortion. According to the known moral values, it’s known that killing is morally wrong. However, in many cases of abortions, the fetuses are incapable of feeling any pain when most abortions are