PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Counterargument, Fetus
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Week 8 lecture #12: thursday october 22, 2015. Kidnapped, connected to unconscious adult w/ fatal kidney aliment. Your kidneys will sustain him for 9 months, or he"ll die. Worse to kill fetus than let mother die. But then wrong for mother to save herself. Doesn"t follow threatened person can"t defend herself. Permissible to save mother, but can"t be performed by third party. If we grant women right to their body, we must reject aaa. Not up to us, up to the person who owns the body the mother. Diff bwt having a right and a right to claim it against other ppl. Right against others not to be unplugged. Right to life isn"t right to another"s body, undermining aaa. But you didn"t give him right, so not unjust. We need to be shown also that killing the fetus violates its right to life, i. e. , that abortion is unjust killing (312) Fetus has no special right (315) to life.
