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A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971)

A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971). Most opposition to Abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person, from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I. think, not well. Take, for example, the most common argument. We are asked to notice that the development of a human being from conception through birth into childhood is continuous; then it is said that to draw a line, to choose a point in this development and say "before this point the thing is not a person, after this point it is a person" is to make an arbitrary choice, a choice for which in the nature of things no good reason can be given.

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