Thomson’s Violinist and Abortion Assignment

Arguments on Thomson’s analogy

Within the article, ‘A Defense of Abortion’, the author Thompson has elaborated on abortion’s moral permissibility by following a wide range of synthetic arguments. The individual has presented analogies by making a clear communication through his strongest points and has defended abortion-related mortality. ‘The violinist scenario’ is one of the first vital analogies that emphasizes proving that in certain circumstances, people can consider abortion as a morally permissible situation like when the pregnancy takes place because of rape. A different analogy is also used by her and that can be known as the analogy of ‘people seed’ for illustrating that abortion could also be granted within specific situations when the baby was conceived in the form of consensual sex (Jarvis Thomson, 2017).Throughout the entire article, Thompson makes assumptions for the argument’s sake a baby or a fetus can also be considered a person. At usual times, anti-abortionists give major emphasis on their argument’s volume to build the fact that a fetus can also be identified as an individual, without providing an explanation regarding how that small life being an individual is regarded as identical to abortion because of being immoral.

By providing an allowance to the fetus for being considered as an individual as well as by highlighting arguments convincingly by analogy, the author Thompson has been capable of making successful arguments for abortion's mortality. The violinist analogy of Thompson even gives concentration to argue that the right attained to gain self-autonomy is not preceded always by the right obtained to enjoy life. Therefore, people must not have expectations on the right of the fetus to life outshine the right of the mother to undergo abortion within every circumstance. A particular scenario is being highlighted by the violinist case specifically in which proper sense is not being made by rights’ ranking (Thomson & Schroth, 2020). To the extent in which the violinist scenario can be identified as analogous in every morally suitable manner, reasonably it is fine to get detached from the violinist yet not granted for aborting a pregnancy.