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Thompson Thompson preliminariesDefends the moderate pro-abortionist positionShe allows for sake of the argument that a fetus is a personShe argues that the standard argument where this is assumed, nevertheless still fails. P1: the fetus is a person and every person has a tight to lifeP2: there for the fetus has a right to lifeP3: The mother has a right to decide what happens to her bodyP4: The fetus’s tight to life outweighs the mothers right to decide what happens to her body C: There for abortion is morally impermissible. Thompson argues that abortion is something permissibleWhen abortion is okay to save the motherIn cases of rape (65) Allows for the sake of the argument that a fetus is a personBut she argues that people who believe co commit the For example: A neonate is a person, But a neonate is very similar to a fetus prior to birth. Which is in turn is similar to a fetus in the beginning of the 8th month, and so on…There is no way to draw a sharp line when a fetus stops being a person if the neonate is a person, then we can treat the zygote as a person. Thompson uses the violinist case to argue against the Standard argumentYou fins yourself hooked up to a famous unconscious violinist. If he cant use your kidneys for nine months he will die.You did not agree to this but were forces to be in this situation.The violinist is perfectly innocent because he has been unconscious. The anti abortionists can argue that the case of rape is an exception.But Thompson points out that this is problematic because it assumes that just because a fetus is the result of rape it either does not have a right to life. Abortion is impermissible even to save the momThe view rests on ta distinction between killing and letting dieP1: Actively killing an innocent person is worse than letting and innocent person dieP2: We have a stronger duty not to kill an innocent person than we so to prevent thedeath of an innocent personC: We have a stronger duty to not kill a fetus than we do to prevent the death of his mother.There’s a gigantic rapidly growing child and unless you kill it first its going to kill you. This is permissible Suppose the fetus does not threaten the mother’s life. Is abortion then impermissible?Here the standard argument seems to be quite powerful: apart form the mothers right to life, no other right s are powerful enough to state a new argumentThompson then argues the right to life is not a simple thing, and cannot be used as sweepingly to provide reasons to


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