PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Henry Fonda, Fetus, Bioethics
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Thomson on the right to bodily integrity she starts by accepting her opponents premise that a fetus is a human. 1st argument that we are creatures with rights. There is something right in this positions but the term rights is not the right vocab for this -- rights doesn"t being in the bioethics of everyday life. 1st - in this cases it acceptable to kill the fetus be them the mother has the right to her body against the fetus. Property right of the body argument - own it and have the right to do what u want with it. She makes an assumption-we only get these resp i. e. of a child when we want that resp and ac- cept it. Stage 2: preg from rape its not the case that someone has to die, the women has been violated but is its not their fault.
