The debate concerning abortion abounds in miraculous narratives. Judith Jarvis Thomson
has contrived the most celebrated set among related ones, to wit the “violinist analogy,” the …

Does the foetus use the body of the woman who has it in the same way that the violinist is
using the body of the unwilling kidney donor? Thomson takes it for granted that the relation …

One of the most influential philosophical arguments in favor of the permissibility of abortion
is Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist analogy, presented in “A Defense of Abortion.” Its appeal …

Judith Jarvis Thomson· concludes" A Defense of Abortion" with a discussion of
samaritanism. Whereas her rights-based arguments demonstrate the l11: oral permissibility …

Should abortion be legal even if the human fetus is a person?“Person” is intended here in its
philosophical sense, to mean a being possessed of equal moral standing and rights as you …

Approximately 50 years have passed since Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote A Defense of
Abortion (1971). Her article has significantly shaped the philosophical literature on abortion …

Greasley's background in Law is evident throughout: legal discussions take centre stage, but
in a way that is cognisant of and responsive to the work of contemporary ethicists. While …

The human agony involved in abortion is enough to establish it as a significant human
problem, but there are two further reasons for phi losophers and theologians to turn their …

Some critics have noted that feminist poetry which concerns the life issues lacks a narrative
line. For example, when she notes specifically that the speaker in Mina Loy's Love Songs to …

There are various ways of attempting to defend an extreme liberal view on abortion,
according to which a woman always has the right to control what happens inside her own …