In the article ‘A Defense of Abortion’ Judith Jarvis Thomson provides an argument that abortion in some cases is morally permissible‚ because all persons have a right to life. Thomson defends the case by the premise that life begins at the moment of conception; therefore a fetus has the right to life. At the same point Thomson argues that women with unplanned pregnancies that occur from acts of rape have the right to decide what happens to their body. Yet Thomson suggests the unborn child’s right
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Why Is Abortion A Concern To People? Philosophical and Historical Perspectives I.Introduction One of the biggest moral issue today is woman’s rights with abortion. Many people argued for the rights to keep abortion while others argued for banning it. In the article "The Rights of a Woman Do Not Outweigh the Rights of A Child" by Judith Jarvis Thomson‚ who is a philosopher and invented an analogy for her debate‚ talks about how a child has more right than the mother in the case of abortion and
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Abortion The main pro-life against abortion argument goes like this: Killing a human life is wrong and a fetus is a human life; therefore‚ killing a fetus is wrong. However‚ the debate is always surrounded by the second premise which is: at what point of a pregnancy is a fetus a human being. As medical science and technology progress‚ the line might shift back and forth. For the sake of this argument‚ I will neglect the second premise; I will say that a fetus is a human being at the time of conception
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Philosophy 1001-001 A Defense of Abortion in Pregnancy Reduction In this paper I will discuss the relevance of J.J. Thomson’s argument in her article‚ A Defense of Abortion‚ to that of pregnancy reduction and if there is any relevance‚ if there are exceptions or situations where that might change. J.J. Thomson’s argument in A Defense of Abortion is that the one thing a person has rights to is his/her body and the right to control what happens with it. Thomson also states that there is an innate
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Thomson’s paper “A defense of Abortion‚” she argues that abortion is morally permissible in some cases. Within the subject of abortion is the circular argument of if a fetus should be classified‚ and therefor given the same rights‚ as a person. One of the common opinions among lawmakers is that a fetus’s classification as a person begins at its viability. Others argue that a fetus is a person at the first sign of brain activity. There is no way to definitive answer so Thomson side steps this by assuming
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"Marquis versus Thomson on Abortion" The debate about abortion focuses on two issues; 1.) Whether the human fetus has the right to life‚ and‚ if so‚ 2.) Whether the rights of the mother override the rights of the fetus. The two ethicists who present strong arguments for their position‚ and who I am further going to discuss are that of Don Marquis and Judith Thomson. Marquis’ "Future Like Ours" (FLO) theory represents his main argument‚ whereas‚ Thomson uses analogies to influence the reader of her
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Thomson vs. Marquis Blake Place Philosophy 160 Monday Wednesday 10:40AM – 12:05PM In submitting this assignment with this cover page‚ I am hereby stating that: (1) I have voluntarily read‚ understand‚ and agree to uphold and abide by the syllabus plagiarism policy for this class; (2) I have neither plagiarized any other author’s written material or unwritten ideas or enabled (intentionally or unwittingly) other students to plagiarize any part of this assignment; (3) I have neither shown or
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“Abortion is Murder!” I read that on a protester’s sign almost every day when I drive to school. The protesters are standing outside of a Planed Parenthood Clinic‚ where abortions are performed. Abortion is a hot-button issue in American politics and media. But are abortions permissible or impermissible? This question is a major topic for many philosophers. Some philosophers‚ including Don Marquis‚ view that abortion is mostly impermissible. They find abortion impermissible because it kills and innocent
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In her paper‚ Defence of Abortion‚ Judith Jarvis Thomson takes a more “pro-choice” approach and argues for the justification of abortion in more circumstances than not. She does this by using different thought experiments that align with different situations in which women can get pregnant. While I agree with her reasonings for the first two circumstances talked about in her paper‚ I disagree with her justification for getting pregnant while using protection. I believe that even though inconvenient
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A. The ‘Conservative Argument’ is based on two premises: it is wrong to kill an innocent human‚ and fetuses are innocent humans; therefore abortion is wrong (Singer‚ 1979‚ p.107). Whilst this argument is valid‚ there have been many attempts to show that the second premise is wrong. The primary method to show this has been to find the “moral dividing line” between fetus and human‚ most notably viability‚ when the fetus can exist independently (Singer‚ 1979‚ p.107-108). This main objection is flawed
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