PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Blood Transfusion, Fetus
14 Dec 2017
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The conservative view is that abortion is never morally acceptable except for when it is used to preserve the health or life of the mother. The fetus is considered to be a full person in this stance. The liberal view states that abortion is acceptable whenever the woman wants it, according to this stance the unborn fetus is not a full human. The middle ground rejects both these stances and argues that all murder is wrong and that every person has a right to life. Judith jarvis thomson in defense of abortion argues by using analogies. She takes the opponents argument and considers it and answers questions. She brings up the violinist example where the reader wakes up kidnapped and hooked to a blood transfusion machine with a famous violinist attached on the other end of the machine.
