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Ideas of Judith (Jarvis) Thomson, by Text
[American, b.1929, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]
1971
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A Defense of Abortion
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p.86
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4695
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Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Foot]
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p.87
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4696
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The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot]
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p.125
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p.125
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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
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p.126
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p.126
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4058
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Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape?
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p.127
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p.127
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4059
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It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life
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p.131
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p.131
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4061
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The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly
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p.131
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p.131
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4060
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The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life
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p.135
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p.135
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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
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1983
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Parthood and Identity across Time
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p.210
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p.25
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13267
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Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Koslicki]
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1997
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People and Their Bodies
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p.211
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p.65
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16209
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How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires?
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