A Defense Of Abortion, By Judith Jarvis Thomson

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In "A Defense of Abortion," Judith Jarvis Thomson offers philosophical questions to show that even if a fetus has a right to life, abortion is not always morally wrong. One of her most famous analogies is the violinist scenario, in which you are accidentally linked to "a famous unconscious violinist" (Thomson, 49) who needs your body to survive. Thomson argues that, while it would be great to keep the violinist connected, there is no moral need to do so, implying that a woman's right to physical choice can justify abortion even if the fetus has a right to life. Don Marquis, in "Why Abortion is Immoral," argues that abortion is usually immoral because it denies the fetus a "future like ours". According to Marquis, murder is bad in general because

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