Matthew Tan TA: Ben Sheredos Section: A06 Prof. G. Doppelt PART A The debate on abortion is primarily made up of two sides: prolife and prochoice. The prolife side’s main argument is that the fetus is a person and therefore has a right to life. Judith Thomson addresses this argument in her paper‚ “A Defense of Abortion‚” by giving a hypothetical sick violinist example. In this example‚ kidnappers abduct a healthy stranger and‚ after rendering him unconscious‚ performs a surgery to “connect” the
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As the title makes plain‚ Thomson asserts that abortion is not impermissible. More exactly‚ she argues for the conclusion that at times‚ abortion is permissible; she asserts that there are scenarios in which getting an abortion would be immoral. What is especially innovative is the way in which her argument is constructed by Thomson. She starts the essay by pointing out the argument over abortion seems to numerous individuals to hinge on whether the fetus is a man. Most feel that if we could simply
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OBJECTIONS TO UTIILITARIANISM SECTION (1) INTRODUCTION We noted‚ last week‚ that UTILITARIANISM is a version of CONSEQUENTIALISM in that it holds that the RIGHT action (in any given situation) is the action WHICH HAS THE WHICH HAS THE BEST CONSEQUENCES; CONSEQUENTIALIST ethical theories may be contrasted
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Dickens‚ B.M.‚ R.J. Cook “Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health: The Scope and Limits of Conscientious Objection.” International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics‚ Vol. 71‚ 2000‚ 71-77 This journal by B.M. Dickens and R.J. Cook informs the readers about both views of conscientious objection. On one side‚ many see that in the medical field there are many things that the medical professionals may not want to do due to their morals while others point out that the treatment the patient may
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To start with I would like to say that honestly I have never been exposed in some argues on the topic of abortion. Consequently‚ this theme is new and is not habitual for me. Have never read any papers that are discussing different points of view on abortion before I was really inspired and amazed of the depth and clearness Judith Jarvis Thomson uses in her “A Defense of Abortion”. The point of this essay is to explain and think on the argument she provides in her work. The first thing that I opened
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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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After reading “A defense of Abortion” by Judith Jarvis Thomson and what he had to say with his violinist analogy involving the kidney replacement. I agree with what he has to say on not only abortion itself but‚ whether or not a fetus should have the right to the women’s body. I don’t think that the fetus should be given the right to use the women’s body because what if she does not what to have a baby and ends up getting pregnant anyway. Also‚ each time a woman engages in sexual intercourse‚ she
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Objections and Rebuttals Whenever a customer has an objection to the offer or price‚ the problem is not that offer or the price it is actually that we as advocates have failed to build enough value in the product to justify the price. So in actuality the reason for the objection more often than not is that the customer is telling us that they are not willing to pay $19.95/$24.99 at this moment. The best way to combat this is to use an intelligent and informed rebuttal‚ do this by keeping the
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Brandon Ganz PHL 101 Prof. McCormick 12/9/2013 Mind Unit Following contemporary philosophy‚ physicalism is the theory that everything in our universe is entirely physical and nothing is non-physical. In Frank Jackson’s well known objection to physicalism‚ “What Mary didn’t know‚” he states it as “not the noncontroversial thesis that the actual world is largely physical‚ but the challenging thesis that it is entirely physical.”(Jackson 281) Already physicalism finds itself in the difficult
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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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