- A Defense of Abortion - Wikipedia
Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally permissible
- A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971)
A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971) human being, a person, from the moment of conception The premise is argued for, but, as I think,
- Abortion: The Unconscious Violinist Argument - Daily Philosophy
Despite these problems (or perhaps even because of them), Thomson’s argument has been at the forefront of the abortion debate for fifty years now, and it doesn’t seem to lose any of its interest and force
- Judith Jarvis Thomson: Does It Matter If a Fetus Is a Person?
In her seminal 1971 essay A Defence of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson takes a different tack, arguing that the permissibility of abortion does not depend exclusively on the truth or falsity of the claim that a fetus is a person
- Abortion - Thomson Flashcards | Quizlet
Thomson Challenges what she thinks is the main argument for the moral impermissibility of abortion: The Right to Life Argument What is this argument? 1 If a fetus has a right to life then then abortion is morally wrong 2 A fetus has a right to life 3 Therefore, abortion is morally wrong
- Class Notes on Abortion: Thomsons Argument Key Issues . . . - Studocu
For it seems to me to be of great interest to ask what happens if, for the sake of argument, we allow the premise How, precisely, are we supposed to get from there to the conclusion that abortion is morally impermissible?
- Thomson, Defense of Abortion - Manchester University
My argument will be found unsatisfactory on two counts by many of those who want to regard abortion as morally per-missible First, while I do argue that abortion is not imper-missible, I do not argue that it is always permissible
- Summary of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s, “A Defense of Abortion”
We could say that abortion kills the innocent child, whereas the mother will merely be allowed to die But T argues that cases of self-defense are clearly not murder
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