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ABSTRACTMany philosophers who wish to defend abortion, but who have become frustrated by the resistance of the personhood question to yield to any nonarbitrary solution welcomed Judith Thomson's ‘A defense of abortion.’Thomson argues that abortion is sometimes justifiable even if the foetus is a person. In this paper I argue that Thomson's argument is a defense of abortion, rather than merely extraction without death, only because of the current state of medical technology. Once the technology is in place to extract foetuses while preserving their lives and to allow them to develop to full term outside the uterus, Thomson cannot defend the killing of the foetus. If she is right, however, a woman will still have the right to have a foetus extracted from her body. Finally, it is pointed out that the source of the problem with Thomson's argument is the major premise in most arguments for the permissibility of abortion: a woman's right to control her own body. If the defence of abortion is to entail a defence of the termination of the foetus, then this premise, understood as the right to remove an unwanted entity from one's body or the right to alter one's body as one wishes, simply will not do the tr

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00025.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00026.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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ABSTRACTA number of contributors to theJournal of Applied Philosophyhave confronted the issues of nuclear war and nuclear weapons. It is the view of some of our readers, however, that there is a distinctive women's voice on this issue. It is for this reason and also in the light of the reported decision of the major news‐media in Britain not to publish any further information about the continuing Greenham protest that this discussion article is included her

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00027.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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Books reviewed in this articles:Human Procreation: ethical aspects of the new techniques. Report of a Working Party, Council for Science and SocietyThe Reproduction Revolution: new ways of making babies. Peter Singer&Deane WellsWhat Sort of People Should There Be? Jonathan GloverHuman Rights, Essays on Justification and Applications. Alan GewirthThe Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism. Anthony ArblasterConceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy. Z. Pelczynski&John GrayEuropean Liberty: Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kolakowski, Marguerite Yourcenar. Pierre Manent, Roger Hausheer, Wojciech Karpinski, Walter Kaiser

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00028.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00029.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY