Thomson

Question 1

Assumptions

Answer 1

1) People have the right to life
2) Fetus is a person
3) fetus has a right to life
4) Person has right to bodily autonomy “

Question 2

general thesis/argument

Answer 2

“The woman has a right to control her own body. The fetus having a right to life shouldn’t overtake this right to your own body (bodily autonomy argument)

Killing isn’t unconditionally and always wrong (tiny house)”

Question 3

relevant examples

Answer 3

“Violinist: Shows limited obligation to others

Henry Fonda: shows that right to life does not entitle one to what they need to sustain life

people seeds: shows that if we take the right precautions, we aren’t obligated to the innocent bystander

tiny house: shows that bodily autonomy makes it right to choose the woman’s life over the fetus’s”

Question 4

major objections

Answer 4

Analogies used are weak i.e. violinists are not fetuses