Judith Jarvis Thomson

Andrew Carnegie was one of the smartest and richest men during the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was mainly focused on factories and textiles. He was able to found his company called American Steel and he was able to generate all of his money from that. Andrew Carnegie was living the American Dream. However, he earned his money from hard working laborers making little to no money a day. Even though many people thought he was such a good person because he donated all of his money at the end of his…

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. Most importantly she believes that every person has a right to life and explains why she thinks that in an article she wrote. Judith Jarvis Thomson, a Professor of…

“impermissible even to save the mother’s life.” Imagine a woman has become pregnant and in the same day learns of a newly developed heart disease that will kill her if she carries her baby to term. The baby has a right to life, but so does the woman. Thomson brings up the argument most familiar. “Performing the abortion would be directly killing the child, whereas doing nothing would not be killing the mother, but letting her die.” The conclusion that is drawn from this scenario is that your own…

In this paper, I will argue that while Judith Jarvis Thomson advocates for a woman's right to remove a fetus without this action directly relating to having the right to its death, the concept of intertwined rights suggests that severing the dependent relationship inherently harms the fetus, thereby challenging this separation. In Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion," she creates a violinist thought experiment to advocate for abortion rights, challenging the absolute right to life of…

Judith Jarvis Thomson and Rosalind Hursthouse have differing opinions on abortion’s morality. In this paper, I will explain both of their arguments for the moral grounds of abortion and explain how Thomson’s analogy of the “world’s famous violinist” differs from abortion, which weakens it. Rosalind Hursthouse is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Auckland, and in her paper, “Virtue Theory and Abortion”, she uses virtue theory to respond to critics by using it how it may be show in the…

Before Judith Jarvis Thomson, all the philosophers that have been arguing pro and against abortion have mainly been focusing on establish if the foetus is a person or not. In fact, arguments pro-abortion would argue that the foetus is only a leaiving tissue of DNA. On the other hand, arguments against it, would say that the foetus is a person since it presents human characteristics. In this regard, Thomson offers an original contribution moving one steps forward in respect to the others…

Abortion is the planned termination of a human pregnancy. Several philosophers and activists have argued over if it is permissible. The author of A Defense of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson, is correct about her argument that abortion is permissible even if the fetus is a person. This is because a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, which, combined with the woman’s own right to life, takes precedent over a fetus’s right to life. Even if people claim that she gave the fetus permission to be there,…

Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote the article Turning the Trolley in order to refute Philippa Foot’s principle about killing and letting die. In Foot’s point of view, there are two duties, one of which is negative duty of noninterference, and the other duty is positive duty of goods and services. According to Foot, when there is a conflict between two duties, the negative duty of noninterference can overrule the positive duty of goods and services. In her example, letting five people die is…

Thomson created the Basic Anti-Abortion Argument, summarized below, with recognizing the fetus as a person. She elucidates how every person, including the fetus, has the right to life. The mother has the right to decide what her body will go through, but…

in essence believes a woman has the right to an abortion if she decides to do so. On the other hand, pro-life supporters believe the fetus is its own human being and has the right to live, thus an abortion cannot be performed on the woman. Judith Jarvis Thomson, a philosophy professor supports the right to an abortion in her paper, “A defense of Abortion” (186). In this paper, she uses examples to try to explain why abortion is not an immoral act as she treats the fetus as an invader to the…