question archive Judith Jarvis Thomson on the Morality of Abortion Main Issue: If we grant that a fetus has a right to life, does that make voluntary abortion immoral? Thomson's strategy is to get us to think about cases that do not involve abortion, in order to force us to articulate our basic moral assumptions
Judith Jarvis Thomson on the Morality of Abortion Main Issue: If we grant that a fetus has a right to life, does that make voluntary abortion immoral? Thomson's strategy is to get us to think about cases that do not involve abortion, in order to force us to articulate our basic moral assumptions
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Judith Jarvis Thomson on the Morality of Abortion
Main Issue: If we grant that a fetus has a right to life, does that make voluntary abortion immoral?
Thomson's strategy is to get us to think about cases that do not involve abortion, in order to force us to articulate our basic moral assumptions. Some of these cases are pretty silly, but that is because she wants us to think about the moral issues without obscuring the issues with the emotional dimensions of the abortion issue. Only after we make a moral decision about a non-abortion case does she examine the implications for abortion.
After reading/watching the information provided on the analogies Judith Jarvis Thomson, discuss the significance of her analogies on the issue of abortion. Include the implications with arguments based on self-defense and the principle of double effect.
A Father's Right?
On March 28, 1992, the Wall Street Journal reported that the New Jersey Supreme Court had tossed out the appeal of a man seeking to stop his girlfriend from having an abortion. Much has been written about the woman's right over her body, but relatively little about the father's rights.
Use the concepts of the many types of rights we have learned this week to answer the following questions. Use materials presented or further research to validate your answers.
Does a man have the right to veto an abortion?
Does he have the right to veto a pregnancy?
What duties logically follow from such rights?
Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion (colorado.edu)
Thought experiment «VIOLINIST» (English) #filosofix - YouTube
People Seeds (Abortion Thought Experiment) - YouTube
The Expanding Child (Abortion Thought Experiment) - YouTube
