Thomson’s paper “A defense of Abortion‚” she argues that abortion is morally permissible in some cases. Within the subject of abortion is the circular argument of if a fetus should be classified‚ and therefor given the same rights‚ as a person. One of the common opinions among lawmakers is that a fetus’s classification as a person begins at its viability. Others argue that a fetus is a person at the first sign of brain activity. There is no way to definitive answer so Thomson side steps this by assuming
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In her paper‚ Defence of Abortion‚ Judith Jarvis Thomson takes a more “pro-choice” approach and argues for the justification of abortion in more circumstances than not. She does this by using different thought experiments that align with different situations in which women can get pregnant. While I agree with her reasonings for the first two circumstances talked about in her paper‚ I disagree with her justification for getting pregnant while using protection. I believe that even though inconvenient
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Ethics of Abortion Abortions have been performed by societies that go back thousands of years but it still remains controversial. Fetuses are human biologically; many believe that performing an abortion be wrong since it is killing a human being. According to Don Marquis‚ abortion is immoral and is equivalent to the killing of an adult human‚ but is justified under certain conditions‚ in other words‚ it is prima facie wrong. On the contrary‚ Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortions are sometimes
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Why Is Abortion A Concern To People? Philosophical and Historical Perspectives I.Introduction One of the biggest moral issue today is woman’s rights with abortion. Many people argued for the rights to keep abortion while others argued for banning it. In the article "The Rights of a Woman Do Not Outweigh the Rights of A Child" by Judith Jarvis Thomson‚ who is a philosopher and invented an analogy for her debate‚ talks about how a child has more right than the mother in the case of abortion and
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In the article ‘A Defense of Abortion’ Judith Jarvis Thomson provides an argument that abortion in some cases is morally permissible‚ because all persons have a right to life. Thomson defends the case by the premise that life begins at the moment of conception; therefore a fetus has the right to life. At the same point Thomson argues that women with unplanned pregnancies that occur from acts of rape have the right to decide what happens to their body. Yet Thomson suggests the unborn child’s right
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Judith Thomson’s argument through her article‚ “A Defence of Abortion” is one that adopts the premise that the fetus is a human being from the moment of conception. By doing this‚ Thomson is distancing her argument from the various theorists who maintain the moral view that it is wrong to kill another human being‚ such as (Marquis‚ 1989). This ultimately allows her to assume various hypothetical situations in which the cognitive status of the fetus is otherwise not considered. This is important.
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that abortion is impermissible to many society and thus ‚ it is viewed to be an immoral act . Abortion pertains to the willful killing of a human fetus through its removal from the maternal womb before its actual birth ( Abortion ’ 26
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Judith Thomson: A Defense of Abortion Judith Thomson article simply outlines the right of abortion with women. Judith presents the argument that everyone has a right to life. However‚ throughout the article she underlines key arguments and give multiple examples and analogies to further prove her point. Thomson began by saying that because everyone has a right to life‚ it is automatically assumed that the fetus is a person‚ and therefore has a right to life. Furthermore‚ the mother does have
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Abortion is an extremely complex and highly debated public issue that has consumed much of the American social and political arena in the late twentieth century. People on both sides of the debate present strong arguments that establish valid points. Society clearly states that child abuse and the murder of one’s child is illegal‚ but does allow abortion. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong‚ the fine line that exists between abortion and murder will be discussed and debated for decades
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Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” argues that even if we all agree that a fetus a person from the moment of conception‚ and a person has an essential right to life‚ the mother’s right to determine what she does and does not do with her body supersedes the rights of the unborn infant. Judith Jarvis Thomson illustrates her point by asking the reader to imagine that you wake up in the morning‚ and you discover that you have been kidnapped in order to save a life of a famous violinist
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