A Defense Of Abortion Judith Jarvis Thomson Analysis

In Judith Jarvis Thomson’s paper, “A Defense of Abortion,” Thomson clearly supports abortion even if the fetus is considered a person. In his argument, Thomson tells us to imagine that we were kidnapped and placed into a room side by side with a famous violinist. The reason we are kidnapped was because the famous violinist has a fatal kidney ailment and we have the right blood type that will aid the famous violinist from the poisons in his kidney. In this scenario, we have to stay side by side with him for nine months. If we were to detach ourselves from him during those nine months, then he would end up dead. In this scenario, where there is someone directly dependent on your own ability to live, Thomson is directly comparing this to a mother …show more content…
In this case, it is wrong for the woman to abort the child. In my opinion, the woman should bear the nine months until the baby is born. In the alternate scenario the mother knew that there was a chance that she would get pregnant during intercourse, and that she would possibly have to bear the responsibilities of having the child in her uterus for nine months. The woman definitely should not abort the child because the child has a right to life, and the woman knew that going into this situation. Thomson’s definition of “right to life” is that if someone has to rely on another person’s body to survive, then the person sacrificing their body to keep the other person alive should not be entitled to do so. However, in the case that a woman gets pregnant through consensual sex (and because the woman is not in a life threatening situation before birth and during birth or conceived against her will), then I believe that the baby does have the right to life. It is immoral for a woman to get an abortion because she does not want to be responsible