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Essay heading: Judith Thomson
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The fetus and the violinist may each have the [first], but it is not evident that either has the [second], [while it is clear that the neither the "you" of the thought experiment nor the woman pregnant as a result of rape has taken the third]. The upshot is that even if the fetus has a right to life (which Thompson does not believe but allows for the sake of the argument), it may still be morally permissible to abort [if the pregnancy is a result of rape]...
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The upshot is that even if the fetus has a right to life (which Thompson does not believe but allows for the sake of the argument), it may still be morally permissible to abort [if the pregnancy is a result of rape].[1]
In her introduction to her "Famous Violinist Problem", Thomson notes that much of the inadequate debate on abortion was getting lost within the issue of whether the fetus is a person or a mass of tissue...
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