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A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.
In her well-known and influential article "A Defense of Abortion", [45] [46] Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is in some circumstances permissible even if the embryo is a person and has a right to life because the embryo's right to life is overtrumped by the woman's right to control her body and its life-support functions; in short ...
An argument first presented by Judith Jarvis Thomson in her 1971 paper "A Defense of Abortion" states that even if the fetus is a person and has a right to life, abortion is morally permissible because a woman has a right to control her own body and its life-support functions (i.e. the right to life does not include the right to be kept alive ...
Another thought experiment, proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson, examines the moral implications of abortion by imagining a situation in which a person gets connected without their consent to an ill violinist. In this scenario, the violinist dies if the connection is severed, similar to how a fetus dies in the case of abortion.
J.J. Thomson's Defense of Abortion actually goes into great detail with the violinist, and other examples (such as people seeds, the giant baby, the fevered brow, and the brothers fighting over chocolate), to incorporate voluntary hookups to other people (to be analogous to a wanted pregnancy going wrong, an unwanted pregnancy that occurred ...
Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson is a 2001 book edited by Alex Byrne, Robert C. Stalnaker and Ralph Wedgwood in which the authors discuss moral and political issues, foundations of moral theory, metaphysics and epistemology. The book is dedicated to Judith Jarvis Thomson. [1]
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity is a 1996 book by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, in which Harman tries to provide a defense of moral relativism and Thomson tries to refute it. Reception