PHIL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Radical Feminism, Fetus, Deontological Ethics
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Thomson"s argument: having the right to life doesn"t guarantee the use/ continue use of someone"s body, abortion is not a prima face wrong. Objections: ethical arguments, her assumption of volunteerism, by using the violinist example as a representation of all situations, all moral obligations are voluntarily accepted, moral obligation to the offspring. If someone father"s a child even accidently we think he has moral obligations to the child: this is not consistent with thomson"s volunteerism case, thomson"s argument is fatal to family morality. If the unborn fetus is an unborn person why would her natural prima face of her parents" claims differ before birth: difference between killing the fetus & unplugging the violinist= letting him die.
