A Defense of Abortion

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…

essay,’ A defense of Abortion,’ that abortion is; morally permissible in the instance of rape or possible health complications that would endanger the life of the mother, and morally permissible in other circumstances due to the mother’s right to her own body outweighing the child’s right to live in the circumstance that the parents took the appropriate precautions to prevent pregnancy. Thompson’s violinist case provides a strong conclusive argument for the moral permissibility of abortion in…

A Defense of Abortion is an article written by Judith Jarvis Thomson about the reasons why women that are pregnant have the right and should have ability to perform an abortion if they choose to do so. Judith gives reasons and examples to why women have the right to abort the fetus if they want to do so. I completely disagree with his arguments. I firmly believe that a fetus has just as much as a right to life, then the mother that is birthing the child. First off, we must define when exactly a…

Judith Jarvis Thomson and Don Marquis each offer a side on the abortion argument. Thomson provides us with “A Defense of Abortion” in which she makes the case for abortions to be generally permissible on the grounds that the mother has a right to choose what she does with her body and the fetus’ right to life does not include the use of another’s body. Marquis’ “Why Abortion is Immoral” makes the argument that abortion should be impermissible based on the fact that the fetus is being deprived of…

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…

Judith Jarvis Thomson who studied at Cambridge University, she is an American philosopher who focuses on morals and abortion. She is well known for her work, “A Defense of Abortion” which she wrote about a woman's write to control her body and a fetus's right to life. The problem that she decided to spend most her time philosophizing on was abortion. Abortion has been a controversial topic for hundreds of years and Thomson decided to break it down to the basics and philosophize. Within…

A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson Right off the bat the title may be a little deceptive but I am in accordance with Thomson and argue that abortion is not impermissible and do not argue that it is always permissible. For my reading response, I want to focus on a mother’s rights and choices when it comes to abortions, taking inspiration from Thomson’s consideration and rebuttal of several “plausible arguments” given as to why and when abortion is not permissible. To start…

idea of bodily autonomy is heavily stressed in her paper, “A Defense of Abortion”. Most of those who are against abortion tend to use the point that a fetus is a person as their major leg to stand on. Thomson argues that they fail to discuss what is impermissible about abortion. She provides strong reasoning for why abortion should be allowed and still makes the distinction that some cases should not permit it. “While I do argue that abortion is not impermissible, I do not argue that it is…

isn’t, but rather to make it clear that even if we consider a fetus to be a person, that abortion can still be morally permissible. This weakens her argument a great deal, instead of providing a proscriptive criterion to base the morality of abortion on, she simply provides what may be a series of fringe cases to establish that while abortion is normally wrong, it isn’t always so. Thomson’s argument on abortion is fundamentally deontological. She presents the view that the right of the mother…

In this decade, Americans have been deeply polarized over the controversial issue of abortion. Although some might say abortion is reasonable, others believe that no one but God has the right to take someone’s life. The main question that derives from the abortion argument asks if abortion is morally impermissible on the basis that it violates the fetus’s right to life. In this sense, I discuss that the fetus is debatably declared a living person which then should have a right to life. The right…