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Ideas for Isaiah, Nagarjuna and Judith (Jarvis) Thomson
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
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Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson]
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4062
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No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson]
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It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson]
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4057
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A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson]
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Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot]
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The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson]
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The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson]
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The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson]
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