
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s ”A Defense of Abortion”
Theory & Philosophy
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You Have to Sit Here for Nine Months Just for This Other Person
We're assuming, from the moment of conception, the foetus is a full fledged human with bodily etonomy. So to make this argument, she presents a very wacky situation. She imagines we wake up unlike a surgeon's table, and we have these tubes coming out of us, and there's his technology working. And on another table next to us is another human lying down, and they're unconscious. We're like, we don't know what the hell 's going on. Suddenly some one walks in and they say, hi, i'm the director of the music lovers society. You need to sit here for nine months for this other person to get better.
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