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A challenge to onetruechurch's core argument, that if the fetus is a person then abortion is impermissible. I outline J.J. Thomson's 'violinist' argument, which concedes for the sake of argument that the fetus is a person, but then proceeds to argue that abortion is permissible nonetheless.
For more on Thomson's article, Wikipedia has a good summary, and a full-text link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
A challenge to onetruechurch's core argument, that if the fetus is a person then abortion is impermissible. I outline J.J. Thomson's 'violinist' argument, which concedes for the sake of argument that the fetus is a person, but then proceeds to argue that abortion is permissible nonetheless.
For more on Thomson's article, Wikipedia has a good summary, and a full-text link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
