Abortion Arguments
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The issue of abortion is the most divisive social and political issue in America today, with two opposing armies of dedicated true-believers, one opposing abortion under any circumstances because they view it as the murder of an unborn child, and the other upholding the idea of choice as an absolute allowing the woman to secure an abortion without hindrance at any point in her pregnancy. Standing between these two extremes are millions of Americans with a more moderate view, a view that includes a concern for the trauma of the woman and an understanding that abortion is a choice not to be made lightly. These millions of Americans area also willing to allow some restrictions on abortions without banning the option altogether. The rigid positions of the two extremes are well-known because both are articulated by core groups of advocates who present the issue in black and white, with an either-or rhetoric that can be puzzling to the majority of Americans who do not see the issue in such stark terms. Those with a "pro-choice" position hold that the fetus is not yet a human life but only a tissue that is part of the woman's body and thus under her control. Those with a pro-life position do not favor abortion as an option except under very limited circumstances, if at all. These people assert that the fetus is a human life and that abortion is murder Judith Jarvis Thomson argues in defense of abortion and begins by noting the rationale offered by those on the other side of t
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s been fulfilled. As Thomson shows, it is not even a question that has to be answered for the basic issues to be analyzed. The second assumption is more to the point, which is that only the woman can make the choice because it is her body, thus eliminating any possible governmental interference in this decision. This is where the pro-life and pro-choice movements clearly follow separate reasoning. This is also where Thomson demonstrates that the woman does and should have control over her own body and that the fetus should not change that fact.
The most convincing argument offered by Thomson is precisely that the individual control's his or her own body and that self-preservation is an instinct which takes precedence for the individual over others. She suggests that the dilemma is to be resolved through a measuring of rights and needs and a balancing of those rights between mother and child, a position which is a clear improvement over the absolutist position of many in the pro-life movement because it allows for abortion to save the life of the mother, in cases of rape and incest, and in other cases where there is a compelling shift in the balance to the mother.
In fact, Thomson's argument is not likely to sway many on the
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