A Defense of Abortion - Springer. Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person, from the moment of conception.
The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for example, the most common argument. We are asked to notice that the development of a human being from conception through birth into childhood is continuous; then it is said that to draw a line, to choose a point in this development and say . It is concluded that the fetus is, or anyway that we had better say it is, a person from the moment of conception.
PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd. Flag for inappropriate content. Thesis Proposal Abortion. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the. 1 “A defense of Abortion”, Judith Jarvis Thomson 1. Every person has a right to life. So, a fetus has a right to life. Whoever has a right to life should never be killed. Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. A brief discussion of Thomson's essay. Princeton University Press A Defense of Abortion Author(s): Judith Jarvis Thomson Reviewed work(s): Source: Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 47-66 Published by: Blackwell Publishing. Reading: Judith Jarvis Thompson: A Defense of Abortion. In cases of self defense: rape, incest, failed birth control. Judith Jarvis Thomson, 'Abortion,' The Boston Review, Vol.
But this conclusion does not follow. Similar things might be said about the development of an acorn into an oak tree, and it does not follow that acorns are oak trees, or that we had better say they are. Arguments of this form are sometimes called.
1 A Defense of Abortion Judith Jarvis Thomson MARK GREENE Department of Philosophy University of Delaware [email protected] www.vole.org Remember? Key ethical questions Nature As Demonic in Thomson's Defense of Abortion. New Scholasticism 63 (4). A Defense of 'a Defense of Abortion'. A Review of David Boonin's a Defense of Abortion.