PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thought Experiment, Fetus
12 Jun 2020
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October 6, 2016 - judith jarvis thomson (1971): a defense of abortion: background, what is abortion, the termination of a pregnancy through the killing of the fetus. It remains illegal in el salavador, dominican republic, nicaragua, chile, So the fetus has a right to life. No doubt the mother has a right to decide what shall happen in and to her body; everyone would grant that. But surely a person"s right to life is stronger than the mother"s right to decide what happens in and to her body, and so outweighs it. So the fetus may not be killed; an abortion may not be performed. : the violinist, imagine this. You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment all the available medical records found that you alone have the right blood type to help.
