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Full Idea
Can we say that a person has a right to life only if they didn't come into existence through rape, or that the latter have less right to life?
Gist of Idea
Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape?
Source
Judith (Jarvis) Thomson (A Defense of Abortion [1971], p.126)
Book Ref
'Ethics for Modern Life', ed/tr. Abelson,R./Friquegnon,M [St Martin's 1987], p.126
A Reaction
This would clearly be an inconsistency for some opponents of abortion who allow rape as an exception.