The factors limiting her choice were religious and legal, and it is important to consider her right to autonomy. These three factors are all present in the ongoing debate about the morality of abortion. The case study is interesting in the context of the abortion debate because it describes a horrible tragedy that many people would use to justify abortion. Because the child was the product of violent trauma, and a danger to the mental health of the mother, pro-choice people might argue that abortion is a good option in this situation.…
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 nine months. In this example, she is trying to compare the attached violinist to pregnancy due to rape.…
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 have a child who gender is male,such being the case,If the pregnant woman has a fetus which is a girl, there will be more likely to go to an abortion.…
All Persons Have a Right to Life The idea of abortion is always a tough subject to talk about. Some people believe it is morally right to have an abortion but some people like Judith Jarvis Thomson think it is wrong to have an abortion. Thompson does just argue that abortion is wrong, she claims that abortion can be justifiable. Judith is right in her belief that abortion is wrong because the fetus is an innocent person and killing an innocent person is always wrong.…
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. In Thompson’s view, it is…
In my opinion, if the social policy was suddenly altered, there would be more costs than benefits. For example, if the abortion laws changed, causing abortions to become illegal it would seriously endanger women’s health. Not all abortions are due to unplanned pregnancies. Some are due to medical complications that could take the life of the mother or the child (source 2). Altering the abortion laws will not stop abortions, it will leave women to seek help in an unsafe way.…
Introduction (45) In this paper, I will argue that Judith Thomson is right to claim that, even if a fetus is a person, abortion is still permissible if the pregnancy was unwilling (i.e rape) or if the pregnancy is a threat to the mother’s health/life. Exposition (492) In Thomson’s paper, she discusses abortion considering the following is true: The human embryo is a person. And so my exposition and my argument will follow the same premise.…
How will her friends accept this choice? Finally yet importantly the father of the child, what is he going to think? Could it end a relationship that was never supposed to end or could it possibly keep one together. The decision is not easy although its life for many woman, men and families. B. Through Feminists from the article, “The Feminist…
Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. In “A Defense of Abortion” Judith Thomson argues, a fetus does not have the right to life or the ability to use someone else’s body. She explains the differences between Good Samaritan and Minimally Decent Samaritan. My objection is that Thomson’s experiment is not realistic, a person has to follow the responsibilities originated from their behavior, and a parent has a commitment to care for their child, and counts as a Minimally Decent Samaritan. Thomson arguments against my criticism would be; the fetus’ rights are not greater than the mother, there’s a difference between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy, a child has to be born to have rights.…
Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. In “A Defense of Abortion” Judith Thomson argues, a fetus does not have the right to life or the ability to use someone else’s body. She explains the different between Good Samaritan and Minimally Decent Samaritan My objection is that Thomson’s experiment is not realistic, a person has to follow the responsibilities of their actions, and a parent has an obligation to care for their child, and counts as a Minimally Decent Samaritan. Thomson arguments against my objections would be the fetus’ rights are not greater than the mother, there’s a different between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy, a child has to be born to have rights.…
Abortion is the process one undergoes to intentionally prematurely end a pregnancy; it has become one of the most controversial and most commonly debated topics in this country. The issue is controversial because it is based on the question of whether or not we have control over the life of an innocent unborn child. The nation is divided on the subject of abortion; it has become one of the highlight issues of today’s modern politics. The peoples’ varying perspectives are driven by their moral values, which has made for a biased, non-bi partisan and emotionally driven debate.…
Annotated Bibliography Topic How can midwives assist women to quit smoking either before or during pregnancy? Baxter S, Everson-Hock E, Messina J, Guillaume L, Burrows J, Goyder E 2010, ‘Factors relating to the uptake of interventions for smoking cessation among pregnant women: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis,’ Nicotine and Tobacco Research, vol.…
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Philosophical critique on the traditional argument against abortion Robert Bertram - UBC ID: 24675373 Phil 333 (001) - Biomedical Ethics The University of British Columbia The concept of morality in relation to abortion is a significant cause of conflict. These moral ambiguities are put into question by Pope John Paul II’s excerpts on the “unspeakable crime of abortion” with regards to the validity, committed fallacies, and the fetus’s content to the right to life (Paul II, 1995, pg. 1). Paul II's Evangelium Vitae (1995), states that aborting a fetus is the "deliberate and direct killing...of a human being in the initial phase of his or her existence". In the paragraphs to follow, this essay will reconstruct the argument, and analyze Thomson's, and Warren's objection to Paul II's statement.…
The topic of abortion has been controversial since abortions first started. Everyone seems to have their own opinion based on their ideals and then there are always the odd circumstances. Deontology is an ethical theory that cares only about the motivations of an action. It deals with the motives a person has and whether those intentions are moral or immoral. Also deontology believes that we should resect autonomy which is people’s freedom to choose.…