
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s ”A Defense of Abortion”
Theory & Philosophy
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Do You Really Want an Abortion?
No one should be obligated to actually perform, in this case, an abortion. That would go against their own right. The point is, instead, to keep the option open and available for somebody else do it. It's really as simple as that. But so far we've been dealing with kind of, you know, not so common situations,. How about situations in which consensual sex insuper just people had sex? And here she imagines as well that, youknow, people have sex. They don't want to have kids, they don't wanting to get pregnant, so,you know, they use protection in all the different ways that might manifesti"
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