Judith Thomson's critique on abortion is almost surely the most extensively anthologized paper on the subject. It was issued one year prior to Roe v. Wade and Thomson disagrees in it for what may superlative be portrayed as a reasonable pro-choice position. The paper is not always simple to pursue; while the personal arguments are comprehensible, the general thread is occasionally less obvious.
Thomson starts by allowing for the characteristic anti-abortion argument. The critical principle, she articulates, is characteristically an assertion that the foetus is completely a full human being from the instant of conception. She upholds that this is false, ...
