Killing and Letting Die
Judith Jarvis Thomson on page 871 is quoted to have made an argument for abortion with the defense that no person no matter what status is entitled to the use of another person’s body; implying the fetus has no absolute right to the mother’s body.
The first objection to this line of thought is that though no one has the absolute right to another’s body the situation in abortion is that the fetus is a living creature. The creature is a result of the mother’s action, and so the life of this fetus was not
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