The argument that somebody hooks you up bodily to a comatose violinist. How do you respond to those sorts of arguments? Well, what I point out is the violinist thought experiment. It puts us in the position of the pregnant mother. But it gets even worse in that because this analogy is so far removed from pregnancy. An unborn child is not like a dying musician who we choose to not save.

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