PHIL 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fetus
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Marques argued that abortion is not okay due to you depriving the fetus of its future. The right to life does not involve or entail the right to (continue to [in terms of long duration]) use someone else"s body to stay alive. Pregnant woman didn"t promise the fetus she would share her body with it (near the end of lecture) pregnant woman didn"t encourage the fetus to enter her body. Thomson: if two people need something, then the one with a just prior claim to it has the greater right to it. Proposal: if someone is partly (casually) responsible for the fact that someone needs to use her body to stay alive, then she has a special obligation to share her body with this person. Tooley says that there"s no morally relative difference between harming somebody and refraining from preventing harm.
