Jarvis Thompson

Abortion is one of the most controversial and talked about topics of our time. In Judith Jarvis Thomson A defense of Abortion, her opinion about abortion was very interesting. When she explained that most people reason for being for or against abortion, that it was well justified but people haven't not thought outside the box beside the usually answer: "notice that the development of a human being from conception through birth into childhood is continuous; then it is said that to draw a line, to choose a point in this development and say "before this point the thing is not a person, after this point it is a person". To give where life begins is in human but we have to give a beginning point develop an argument such as life begins at conception or before three moths it is a fetus not human. At some point life begin somewhere.

To give it a biblical or scientific is more of the conflict. She has a lot of great points but I completely disagree what she is saying. For example she says" should we add to the mother's right to life her right to decide what happens in and to her body, which everybody seems to be ready to grant--the sum of her rights now outweighing the fetus's right to life?" Humans are never really fully developed. Even when were born still are we growing, changing, maturing and aging constantly, which means we're always developing, and we develop through the first nine months of our lives attached to our mothers. Without someone to take the child, the child wouldn't exist so; the mother's choice is weighed more heavily because she is the one who has to take care of the child. Without a mother is there would be no child. Women should not be forced to have babies they don't want or are ready for.

They must be able to decide what happens to them and have a safe plus legal way of doing so. Women are in control of their own bodies and lives. Pregnancy is her choice, so it should be her choice to abort the baby. A mother should have the right to there her own body. When a woman is pregnant it is her body that goes through all the stress of pregnancy. If she decides not to have a pregnancy she should be able to do so. Denying her the right to her body is violating her most basic freedom.

Another argument I disagree with is" It allows for and supports our sense that, for example, a sick and desperately frightened fourteen-years-old school girl, pregnant due to rape, may of course choose abortion, and that any law which rules this out is an insane law". She then argues, "That we have only been pretending throughout that the fetus is a human being from the moment of conception. A very early abortion is surely not the killing of a person, and so is not dealt with by anything I have said here." A life is a life even if they were raped. It is okay for a rape victim to an abortion because she didn't give consent for this person to use her body but with her previous agreements a fetus is a human.

You could also think that a mother was raped and she is going to abort this pregnancy and take away the chance for this child to live, so therefore she would be eventually punishing the child for something the child had nothing to do with. So at the same time if you take the position of saying that women should