PHIL 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anti-Abortion Movements, Fetus, New Challenge
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Key: grant that a fetus is a person and still show that abortions are morally okay. You wake up attached to a violinist. He needs to be hooked up to your kidneys to live (you are the only one that can help). You did not give anyone your permission to use your body in this way (kidnapped). After 9 months, the violinist will be better and he can be detached from you. It is permissible for you to detach yourself from the violinist even if doing so will surely lead to his death (after all, you did not give him your permission to use your body in this way. ) The violinist is a person and has a right to life. But this does not entail that he has the right to have everything that he needs to live. (3) a person"s right to life always outweighs a person"s right to control her body.
