Summary Of Judith Thomson's Defense Of Abortion

Abortion is a growing controversial issue in the world today, mainly in the United States. “Abortion is one the most common medical performed in the United States each year” (Suzann, 1). The issue has become more prominent as years’ progress for a variety of reasons, to include the fact that the “traditional” family’s existence is fading. Abortion became legalized during the Roe v Wade case in 1973, now a little over one million abortions are performed each year. Women are becoming undesirably pregnant at alarming rates, many who feel they are unable to effectively take care of a child. My thesis is that Thomson argues that abortion is permissible is some cases, however, her examples provided, do not always properly support her argument. Thomson makes a variety of arguments during Defense of Abortion that mostly combat the view that all abortion is morally impermissible. She believes that in most cases people decisions of whether abortion is morally permissible versus impermissible is dependent on whether a person believes that an embryo is a person. This suggests that since the embryo is a person then …show more content…
In the case of the violinist she neglects to address the age difference between a fetus and the violinist, fails to make the fetus equal with that which represents it in story, and does not take into account the different emotional connections that take place with a stranger versus a fetus. Thomson’s case about Henry ford did not accurately represent the choices that the mother makes in an abortion oversimplifying, and adding details that lead the reader to be less sympathetic towards one side. Although she did not cover all bases on those tow arguments the chocolate box argument was a great example to support her idea that the right to life is not just about being killed, but contrarily in the right to not be killed in an unjust