Abortion has always been a controversial topic on whether it is right or wrong. In this paper I will talk about Sue, who is a married woman in a very abusive relationship due to the fact that they are unable to become pregnant. Sue’s husband is also very controlling and has affairs with other women, so they haven’t had sex in over a year. Sue ends up having an affair with her former high school flame, Rudy, and she becomes pregnant. They used condoms and Rudy also has a vasectomy, but she still became pregnant. In the end Sue decides to have a first term abortion. I think that Sue’s choice is morally acceptable because she has her own rights, and free choice of what to do without someone else's permission. and the examples she gives in her article, A Defense of Abortion and Mary Anne Warren’s article On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion. In Thomson’s article Sue uses examples to dismiss the argument that the fetus’s right to life outweighs the mother’s right to decide what happens in and to her body. She argues that at what point in a pregnancy does …show more content…
She uses this analogy to make sense out of the result of pregnancy due to consensual sex. To protect yourself from the “people seeds” you put screens on your windows so they don’t have the chance to get in, just like you use protection and other forms of birth control to prevent pregnancy. As we all know these aren’t one hundred percent effective, just like the screens on the windows to prevent “people seeds” getting into your house. Just as in Sue’s case they used condoms and Rudy even had a vasectomy, but she still ended up getting pregnant. Thompson argues in her article that women who use contraceptives but that are defective have no moral obligation in keeping the pregnancy going and have the valid right to end the