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Thomson’s Defense of Abortion (Q3) In 1971, philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote an article analyzing the morality of abortion, offering an (albeit limited) defense of the right of a woman to have an abortion. Her A Defense of Abortion was groundbreaking in that it portrayed the value of using philosophical reasoning in modern debates of morality. Thomson grants for the sake of the argument that the fetus is a human being from conception, and that therefore, it has a right to life. In the extreme

§4, I will give an explanation of a response Thomson could have concerning my objection to her argument. In §5, I will explain how my objection succeeds by having support from another stance. §2 Thompson’s Argument Most people would agree that killing a person is extremely wrong. Even though killing someone no matter the age is considered wrong, Thomson makes a compelling argument that killing a person is okay if it is in the case of abortion. Thomson does not believe a fetus is a person, “I think

master at Cambridge University from 1959-1966, and was the president of the International Union of Physics from 1951 through to 1957. (Sir Nevill F. Mott - Biographical, 2015, para.1-3). In 1977, Mott received the Noble Prize for Physics, an honor which he shared with two other physicists. The prize was awarded for theoretical studies of the structure of the electron, regarding magnetic and disordered systems (Sir Neill F. Mott - Facts, 2015, para. 4). Ernest T. S. Walton was born October 6, 1931

experiments, Thomson assesses three different scenarios to draw convincing conclusions on the morality of abortion: the permissibility of abortion, physician willingness for abortion, and abortions from voluntary intercourse. Thomson begins her defense of abortion unconventionally with the acceptance of the opposing assumption that the fetus is an innocent person from the moment of conception “for the sake of argument.” (47) By adopting the primary argument against abortion, Thomson avoids the conundrum

life. In her article, “A Defense of Abortion”, Judith Thomson argues that abortion is morally permissible under specific conditions where the rights of the fetus fail to surpass a mother’s right over her own body. For the sake of her argument, Thomson allows the assumption that a fetus is a person, and instead attacks the premise that the fetus’ right to life is stronger than that of a mother’s bodily integrity. The main argument that Thomson makes is that right to life, defined as the right to “be

Judith Jarvis Thomson proposes her argument in her article, A Defense of Abortion. There, she explains to her readers during what circumstances is abortion justifiable. Thomson uses the argument by analogy strategy to explain to her readers her argument. She tries to reach her conclusion by comparing it to similar cases. The point she is trying to make is to tell her readers that abortion is morally permissible only in some cases, like when the mother has been a victim of rape, when contraception

In “A Defense of Abortion”, Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is not impermissible in some cases. Thomson begins her writing, noting that abortion being permissible (for most) depends on whether or not a fetus is considered a person. For her argument, Thomson assumes that a fetus is a person from the moment of conception. She attempts to show that still, with this granted, abortion is permissible in some cases. Thomson points to a vital premise in the argument opposing abortion; that the

In Judith Jarvis Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion, Thomson explores the relationship between the rights of a fetus and the rights of a human, in this case the mother. Thomson is an American moral philosopher and meta-physician. She is known for her defense of moral objectivity, her account of moral rights, her views about the incompleteness of the term 'good, ' and her use of thought experiments to make philosophical points. In the article, Thomson defends abortions in several certain circumstances

justify their position, whereas those who are against the issue often claim that a fetus is a moral person and should deserve every right a moral person has, including the right to live. Judith Jarvis Thomson, however, takes an entirely different approach. In her article “A Defense of Abortion” Thomson argues that even if a fetus is considered to be a human being does not automatically ensure it the right to live. Thomson’s position leads to many oppositions and critiques. Foot’s article, for example

7228414 Dr. Moss PHIL 364 Reading Essay 3 In Defense of Life RECONSTRUCTION Judith Thomson makes many different arguments regarding the morality of abortion. One of her many arguments is that a woman should have a right to defend her own life, and therefore the extreme view of abortion is inherently false (268). To make her argument, Thomson does addresses two things. One, she addresses the opposition by confronting their core argument (that a fetus is a person and has a right to life), and although