We argue against Thomson's view that abortion is permissible even if fetuses have high
moral status. Against this, we argue that, because many mothers are morally responsible for …

It has been argued that Thomson's defense of abortion, if successful, implies that abortion is
permissible only until the point of viability. After that point, if one wanted to end a pregnancy …

Also, this essay will neglect issues of great importance to a complete ethics of abortion.
Some anti‐-abortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion before …

Most opposition to abortion stands or falls on whether a fetus is the sort of being whose life it
is seriously wrong to end. In her influential paper 'A defense of abortion,'Judith Jarvis …

When a woman or girl finds herself pregnant, is it morally permissible for her to end that
pregnancy? One dominant tradition says “no”; its close cousin says “rarely”-exceptions may …

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 …

In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in
which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons …

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 …

The term “abortion” is used in this discussion to refer to deliberate removal (or deliberate
action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 2 from the womb of a human female, at the request …

The purpose of this essay is to set out an argument for the claim that abortion, except
perhaps in rare instances, is seriously wrong. 1 One reason for these exceptions is to …