Judith Jarvis Thomson, an American philosopher born in 1929, works in ethics and
philosophy of mind. Her article on abortion is one of the most widely reprinted essays of …

There is a familiar argument that purports to show that it is always wrong for an expectant
woman to have an abortion. It runs as follows:(i) from the moment of conception, a foetus is a …

In her 1971 article," A Defense of Abortion," Judith Jarvis Thomson defended the following
thesis: the impermissibility of abortion does not follow from the premises that every fetus is a …

Fortunately, none of the arguments for and against abortion need be expressed in terms of"
rights." As we shall see, Judith Thomson vir-tually admits as much in her" A Defense of …

Judith Jarvis Thomson is best known for a defense of abortion that concedes the fetus's
personhood but nevertheless maintains that a right to abortion is morally justified. 1 She is …

One of the more common objections to Judith Thomson's in fluential defense of abortion1 is
that the only cases for which her argument is straightforwardly convincing are cases where …

The linchpin of Judith Jarvis Thomson's landmark article," A Defense of Abortion," is not a
claim about abortion, nor even a claim about killing, but a claim about the nature of rights …

In the abortion debate, one of the more overworked arguments concerns the if and when of
the humanity of a fetus. For those who argue along these lines, the answer to these …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …