Moral status of the fetus and the permissibility of abortion: a contractarian response to Thomson’s violinist thought experiment
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106810
Abstract: Judith Jarvis Thomson famously argued that abortion is permissible even if we accept that a fetus qualifies as a person and possesses a right to life. The current paper presents two arguments that undermine Thomson’s… read more here.
Keywords: thomson violinist; fetus; abortion; thought experiment ... See more keywords