Abortion

Who has control over your body? When, if ever, is it right to terminate a pregnancy? There are so many laws and regulations that impede one to have total control over his or her own body. The most popular moral dilemma women face is dealing with the issue of abortion. Abortion is viewed in many different ways, but most women are fighting to gain more rights. Pro-life verses pro-choice is the general separation with this issue. Those who support abortion believe that the fetus is nothing more than tissue; those who oppose abortion believe that the fetus has the right to life. In “A Defense of Abortion”, Judith Jarvis Thomson, a female philosopher, tries to prove that abortion can exist within a moral code, providing numerous analogies; the environment she was surrounded by geared her on the individualistic path.
Judith Jarvis Thomson believes in individual rights. She wrote “A Defense of Abortion” in 1970. In this article Thomson discusses a woman’s rights. In her book,...