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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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's defense of abortion is well known. 1 She main tains that carrying a
fetus is comparable to being a Good Samaritan: it is not a strict duty one has no choice but to …

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 …

We will be concerned with both the moral status of abortion, which for our purposes we may
define as the act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another …

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 …

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 …