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 pregnancy is as akin to an open window as an invitation to an unwanted intruder and argue how it falls short of the mark and does not consider or take into account the responsibility attached as the consequence of one’s actions.
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