Emily Albrecht responds to Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Violinist thought experiment as presented in Thomson’s paper “A Defense of Abortion.” Is abortion analogous to unplugging from a sick person or refusing to donate your kidney? Is abortion justified because of our “right to refuse” the use of our bodies to others?
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