Noonan's Argument Analysis

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In my opinion, I don’t think I will have the courage to unplug the circulatory from my body because I don’t want to take a decision that will lead to the death of the famous violinist. I know all this situation is sat up by the music lovers but still I would not kill the guy because I just have been forced to be in such a situation in which my opinion has not been taken in the first place. Some might argue that I have been abducted, and I have been used as a mean to save someone’s life. Nevertheless, I will not take a decision to unplug the wires from my body. The case of abortion is as same as the case of the famous violinist except that a woman might have the option to be plugged to a baby or not. In the following paragraphs I will discuss whether the government should force me to be plugged to the violinist or not, is this prove anything about abortion and what does Noonan’s argument shows about it.?

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Basically, Noonan says that since the baby has full moral status then he is a person which in the end if a woman took a decision to terminate her pregnancy, this mean a murder has committed by an abortion process. Noonan is a pro-life and wouldn’t agree to unplug the wires from violinist’s body as he wouldn’t agree on the abortion as well. in my opinion, I completely agree with Noonan’s logic that a baby has full moral status as same as the violinist imaginary situation has. I admire Noonan’s argument that even a baby has full moral status and his or her life shouldn’t be terminated by a stupide decision. On the other hand, some argues that a woman has full moral status than the baby and the baby isn’t, or the violinist has more status than me when I am plugged to him. My answer would be what about a decision that save everyone’s life and is win-win at the end. It’s just nice months and everything is going to be

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