In “A Defense of Abortion,” by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomson believes in autonomy, meaning that adults have complete control of what happens to their body. According to Thomson, the fetus’ right to life is not always stronger than the mothers’ right to bodily integrity; the woman has no obligation to the fetus unless the pregnancy resulted from a voluntary act (RT, 114). In her thought experiment, the violinist, Thomson uses the analogy of a violinist and an innocent person. The violinists’ only means of survival was to be attached to the woman. This attachment was made without the woman's consent, and it must be fully maintained for up to 9 months in order for the violinist to survive and if it’s unplugged an innocent person will die (ET,