Examples Of Abortion By Judithvis Thomson

For Judith Jarvis Thomson abortion is something that should be a negative right, provided that it has certain guide lines. One in which abortions are neither a right that should be given or taken away. Thomson begins by arguing that there is no right time to mark the point in which a person should begin to be considered a person. She then gives an example of an oak tree and how it is not called an oak tree at the beginning, but goes through stages to become an oak tree. For people to claim that a fetus is a person without going through the stages is considered to be “slippery slope argument” by Thomson’s account. But Thomson does agree that a fetus becomes a person at some point before it’s born, even though there is no indication to when …show more content…
Therefore a fetus would have greater right to life, then the women who conserved it. Thomson then goes on to give an analogy about a famous violinist. If this violinist were to be ill and people kidnapped and used you as a living machine to keep him alive, for any given amount of days, months, or years his right to live, would then outweigh your right to your own body. Comparing kidnapping to being raped Thomson claims that rape victims wouldn’t be morally wrong to having an abortion. Moving forward Thomson argues that rape victims alone cannot have the choice to abortion for the reasoning that it would create a rift between who has a right to life, those conceived by rape or …show more content…
Thomson claims that if a person doesn’t have any rights against you then you would just be morally indecent to not allow them some level of right to life. So even if a person were to be rude, mean, petty etc. it still wouldn’t be unjust for them to refuse to help keep a person alive. Thomson then explains, if people supported one person’s right to another’s right to life, then what’s to stop them from supporting that other person’s right to life. Furthermore, Thomson rejection the argument that loosely claims that people have a right against those who will not help them if it is an easy enough