Judith Jarvis Thomson

In this paper I am going to argue that Judith Jarvis Thomson is correct when she argues that abortion is not unjust killing and is permissible. Thomson’s argument is based on a woman’s right to decide to have an abortion on the notion that a fetus is regarded as a person from the time of conception. Thomson reaches her final conclusion that abortion is not unjust killing by countering claims from anti-abortionists, such as Don Marquis, and by defining key terms anti-abortionists commonly use in their arguments. I will first begin by briefly introducing Don Marquis’s view regarding abortion. Marquis argues that it is wrong to kill a fetus because it would deprive it of having a “future like ours”, to which he further defines as the future…

When a car is out on the road, the driver has the responsibility to make moral and ethical decisions concerning not only his or her safety, but also the safety of others. Similarly, fully automatic self-driving cars would be expected to do the same. Designing self-driving cars is a difficult process as many ethical decision-making codes have to be programmed into the cars. Ethical principles have to be reviewed carefully before they are implemented into the self-driving cars so that the public…

Name: Mohammadamin Malek Pour Judith Jarvis Thomson on her article about the morality of abortion gives us some simple and understandable examples. First, she considers the fetus is a person, although she thinks this is a “slope slippery arguments”. In her article, she simply argues that the mother has the right to her body and abortion can be permissible. First, she gives an example of a violinist who is attached to you without your permission and you have to keep the violinist for…

A Defense of Abortion is an article written by Judith Jarvis Thomson about the reasons why women that are pregnant have the right and should have ability to perform an abortion if they choose to do so. Judith gives reasons and examples to why women have the right to abort the fetus if they want to do so. I completely disagree with his arguments. I firmly believe that a fetus has just as much as a right to life, then the mother that is birthing the child. First off, we must define when exactly a…

In her article, “A Defense of Abortion,” Judith Jarvis Thomson maintains that there are instances where a woman might engage in voluntary and mutually consensual sex, but it does not give the fetus the right to inhabit a woman’s body. In a comparison, she points out the absurdity to allow a burglar to stay in your house, even though you might be partially to blame for their presence through a window left open. In this paper, I will reconstruct her argument using the analogy that an unplanned…

Judith Jarvis Thomson argued that while there were objections to abortion, they weren’t well supported. While some people think that abortion is morally wrong, I agree with Thomson because of many reasons. One main reason is that while the fetus has the right to life, a mother does at well. Having an abortion could also be beneficial to the mother’s health if needed. Even if the mother’s health is not at stake and she knew of the risks and still engaged in consensual sex, it’s an unexpected…

A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson Right off the bat the title may be a little deceptive but I am in accordance with Thomson and argue that abortion is not impermissible and do not argue that it is always permissible. For my reading response, I want to focus on a mother’s rights and choices when it comes to abortions, taking inspiration from Thomson’s consideration and rebuttal of several “plausible arguments” given as to why and when abortion is not permissible. To start…

A moral philosophy called Judith Jarvis Thomson,came up with “A Defense of Abortion” in 1971.When it comes to argument of the right to life,According to experiments, he argue that fetus has the right to life though the pregnant woman has the right to control her own body.He disagree that abortion is morally impermissible.（Thomson，1971） Long time ago,abortion was considered in the context of gender selection,family planning,population control.First and foremost,almost every family want to…

Judith Jarvis Thomson who studied at Cambridge University, she is an American philosopher who focuses on morals and abortion. She is well known for her work, “A Defense of Abortion” which she wrote about a woman's write to control her body and a fetus's right to life. The problem that she decided to spend most her time philosophizing on was abortion. Abortion has been a controversial topic for hundreds of years and Thomson decided to break it down to the basics and philosophize. Within…

matters a lot. The trolley problem proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1976 gives me an opportunity to make a distinction between cases with similar situations but opposite results. I agree with Judith Jarvis Thomson’s opinion about the trolley problem which was presented in her later paper published in 1985. Thomson (1985) attempts to show that it is morally permissible to divert what will be a threat to many onto a few if this is done in ways which do not themselves constitute violation of…