PHIL20401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Henry Fonda, Fetus
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The debate is happening without taking into consideration the concerns of the mother. Ppl are only focusing on the personhood of the fetus. Most abortions are okay but shes also saying that the fetus is a person. Wake up one morning hooked to a famous violinist. His kidneys are failing and if you unhook him he would die. o o o. P1) unhooking the violinist and aborting a fetus are the same in all morally relevant respects. P2) it is permissible to unhook the violinist. P3) cases that are the same in all morally relevant respects must be of the same moral valence: it is permissible to abort a fetus. o. Objection: but you are not responsible for the violinist being there. So all you would have proved is that abortion is okay in the case of rape o. She has a response to this: people seeds.
