ethics & morality
whose body is it anyway?
a famous violinist, your two kidneys, and the limits of what one body owes another.
Few rights sound more absolute than the right to life. Judith Jarvis Thomson’s strange and brilliant argument grants it in full, and then asks whether even an absolute right to life can include the right to use another person’s body without consent. Answer each scene for yourself; we will trace the principle you are actually relying on.
further reading
- a defense of abortion original paper
- a defense of abortion wikipedia