PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Henry Fonda, Fetus
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P1) it is wrong to kill innocent human beings. P2) abortion is the killing of an innocent human being: therefore, abortion is wrong. If we look at the violinist analogy, suppose i"m the director of the hospital, is it okay for me to unplug you from the violinist, knowing that you"re going to die: thomson: yes! It"s morally permissible for me to take the coat from jones and give it to. If one of these plant into your upholstery, it will grow into a person. We don"t want this responsibility, so you get screens on your windows to prevent them. But for some reason, one of the screens is defective, and a people seed gets in. You opened your windows but had screens: it seems like the answer is, no, you don"t, you took reasonable precautions to prevent it but you get the people seed anyways. You haven"t granted the people seed the right to grow on your upholstery.
