PHIL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Zac Efron, Fetus, Thought Experiment
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The right to life argument: for the sake of the argument: the fetus is a person, meaning the person should have the right to life, p1: since the fetus is a person it has a right to life. P2: its right to life weighs heavily more than the mother"s right of what happens to her body. Therefore abortion is wrong: violinist"s thought experiment, you"re hooked to tubes to an estrange man who is a violinist. You are the only one that can save him with your body. So a scientist kidnapped you and brought you there. If you take away the tubes, you will kill the violinist . Engaging in intercourse without precaution: consent is not clear, there are cases where the fetus has the right to using the mother"s body. Therefore some cases of abortion is unjustified: case of chocolate, you have 2 children. You give your daughter on her birthday a box of chocolate.
