Critique of abortion
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JJ Thompson has done an excellent job of defending abortion in her article "A Defense of Abortion". Being a pro abortionist myself, I agree with most of the arguments stated by Thompson. In my paper I will go through both positives and negatives of Thompson's main arguments.
Thompson first major argument for abortion is the right to life. When a woman gets pregnant she must choose her life (in a sense she will be pregnant for nine months) or the fetus' life (to abort it or not). Suppose the fetus' has a right to life, the woman can still abort it because she is not unjustly killing the fetus. She uses the violinist example to explain the dilemma. Suppose you woke up attached to a famous violinist and the doctor says you must be with him for 9 months, you would be outraged of what's going on. It would be nice of you to let the violinist be attached to you, but it shouldn't be required of you. I agree with Thompson in this argument...