The Abortion Debate

a priority if humans have justifiable claims for things. Based on the consensus that it is justice to help others in securing what is rightly theirs, women should have the right to seek third party assistance for commissioning abortion. In addition, Thompson finds the argument that we all have a right to life a misconception of the right to life. This is due to the fact that the right to life by an individual should not be respected at the expense of or when such demands dependency on others.
             The right to life by the fetus as an independent person is, according to Thompson, lacking a sound basis to be acceptable. This is because it seems to establish the right to life by the fetus in the body of the mother by assuming that the pregnancy was the result of a voluntary decision by the mother. This implies that the qualification of abortion as unjust killing is subject to continued debate on whether the pregnancy was voluntary or not. On the other hand, Thompson claims that most arguments against abortion seem to depict a moral possibility of detaching the individual from their body even if that comes at the expense of their life. For her, this argument also seems to promote the notion that
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