The overall thesis that Thomson presents in “A Defence of Abortion”, is that abortion is permissible no matter the personhood status of the fetus.
Thomson's argument is supposed to show that even if the fetus has a right to life, it still may be permissible to abort. Just as the violinist's right to life does not grant him the right to use your body to sustain his life, the fetus's right to life does not grant it the right to use your body.
The pregnant woman has a special responsibility, the fetus is dependent on the mother, therefore the fetus has a right against the woman that no one else has.
Educated pro-choicers who claim that the question of fetal personhood is irrelevant because the mother's right to an abortion would trump the fetus' right to life even if he is a person may bring up Judith Jarvis Thompson's famous “Violinist Analogy” or some variation of it.
The philosophical debate about abortion had focused on the question of whether a fetus is a person; Thomson argued that even if it is granted that a fetus is a person, abortion is still morally permissible under some circumstances.
Thomson says: “[it] would be indecent in the woman to request an abortion, and indecent in the doctor to perform it, if she is in her seventh month, and wants the abortion just to avoid the nuisance of postponing a trip abroad”.
Thomson believes that the fetus is a human person only after birth. According to Thomson, it is permissible to unhook yourself from the violinist if the alternative would be to remain bedridden for nine months. Thomson believes that all persons have a right to life.
In her important and well-known discussion “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” Mary Anne Warren regrets that “it is not possible to produce a satisfactory defense of a woman's right to obtain an abortion without showing that the fetus is not a human being, in the morally relevant sense.” 1 Significantly, for ...
In 1971, the moral philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson made a similar claim in “A Defense of Abortion.” She argued that abortion could still be morally permissible even if “the fetus has already become a human person well before birth,” because “the right to life consists not in the right not to be killed, but rather in ...
All persons have a right to life, and violinists are persons. Granted you have a right to decide what happens in and to your body, but a person's right to life outweighs your right to decide what happens in and to your body.
Instead, her thought experiment is intended to show the implausibility of the doctor's final argument: that because the violinist has a right to life, you are therefore obligated to be bound to him for nine months. “This argument treats the right to life as if it were unproblematic.
abortion is impermissible even to save the mother's life "the extreme view." 1. Let us call the view that abortion is impermissible even to save the mother's life "the extreme view." Example: mother has a cardiac condition.
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