Judith Jarvis Thomson On Abortion

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Abortion is generally seen as being one the most controversial issues in today’s society. Because of this, philosophers have taken to discussing and defending their views on exactly what it is that makes abortion morally acceptable or immorally wrong. Judith Jarvis Thomson aims to defend abortion while Don Marquis aims to fight it, in most cases. With the topic of consensual sex, their views are opposing. Thomson believes in cases of consensual sex there is no moral obligation on the right of the woman. She created an analogy as a scenario in which a woman could be pregnant but wishes to terminate the pregnancy. The scenario itself is based off of an entity she created called the “person-seed”. A house-owner, who installed screens on his

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