Defense of abortion

In her essay A Defense of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson uses an analogy of a person who is involuntarily subjected to saving the life of a famous violinist, comparing the hypothetical situation to a woman carrying an unwanted fetus. As the analogy goes, this person must be connected to the circulatory system of the violinist, for nine months, in order to save their life. To unplug from the violinist would kill them, a parallel to performing an abortion. This analogy is useful to a degree, particularly

issues arise when facts are issued to complex, nonexistent terms. Of such paradigm, abortion or specifically when a fetus can be deemed a human being. In this essay I will illicit one Judith Thomson’s particular viewpoint on abortion through her essay, “A Defense Against Abortion,” analyzing her fact implored reasoning. First, before discussing reasoning we must examine the facts surrounding abortion. Abortion is the intentional

Judith Jarvis Thomson, like many philosophers, was interested in not only talking about war, self-defense, and other issues about the rights of women. Thomson in A Defense of Abortion stated that everyone has the right to life. She did not personally believe that this was the case, but she wanted to set it so that the passage would not focus on whether or not a fetus has a right at conception or at birth. Thomson’s definition of one’s right to life is the right not to be killed “unjustly.” This view

Judith Jarvis Thomson’s essay “A Defense of Abortion” (1971), she defends the thesis that abortion is morally permissible. She argues that even if a fetus is a person, and possesses every right to life, that that in itself does not constitute the impermissibility of abortion. In this essay, I will defend and critique Thomson’s defense of abortion’s moral permissibility in light of apparent weaknesses that critics have pointed out. Thomson’s argues that abortion is morally permissible. She grants

Abortion: Critical Evaluation of Thomson’s “Defense of Abortion” In discussions of abortion, a controversial issue has been whether abortion is morally permissible. According to anti-abortionists, abortion is the killing of an innocent fetus and is therefore not morally permissible. According to Judith Jarvis Thomson, however, abortion is not morally wrong in most cases and she attacks the anti-abortionist argument. Therefore, they disagree on whether abortion is morally permissible or not. In this

Judith Jarvis Thomson’s, “A Defense of Abortion” (RTD ch.14) considers the Responsibility Objection where she offers to two responses. Response one states “anyone can avoid pregnancy due to rape by having a hysterectomy, or anyway by never leaving without a (reliable!) army” (RTD 115). I will argue that Thomson is wrong when she claims that the assumption if doing x will guarantee that you won’t become pregnant and you chose not to do x and then become pregnant, then you are responsible for the pregnancy

In Judith Jarvis Thomson’s article “A Defense of Abortion”, she argues that abortion should be off-limits yet that in some cases it is acceptable. Thomson demonstrates “that abortion is morally permissible” utilizing different situations of becoming pregnant, while comparing and contrasting those circumstances with different analogies. (p. 241) She bases abortion rights on a pregnant women’s legal right to control her own body, rather than trying to deny that a fetus is already a living person. To

An Abortion is the deliberate dissolution of a human pregnancy, most often implemented in the course of the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Individuals in the general public are pro-life and more or less are pro-choice. Some people feel abortions are becoming more and more justified. Others who consider America’s moral principles and standards feel the carnage of an unborn fetus is ethically wrong, consequently death is morally wrong. Abortion has developed into a debatable topic in American society

claim that, even if a fetus is a person, abortion is still permissible when mothers life is in danger, or if she was raped by someone, or in a critical situation. (46) There have been arguments more than decades over abortion, some philosopher says it’s oaky to have abortion; other considers it as murder of an unborn child. However philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson shares her thoughts through her writing “A Defense of Abortion”. According to her abortion is not morally right thing to do but in certain

Judith Jarvis Thomson argues in her essay A Defense of Abortion, that abortions should be allowed, and furthermore that women have a right to them. She offers several examples of cases in an attempt to prove her view. The first is the violinist argument, in which a woman awakens to find a famous violinist has been attached to her. The violinist is dependent on her kidneys and to detach him would kill him. This scenario is an analogy to a situation in which a woman was raped and a pregnancy resulted