After reading In Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson, respond to the following questions concerning abortion and the pro-choice position located at the end of the chapter. Your response to each question should be 100 words in length.
1. Thomsons first thought experiment is the case of the violinist. Do you agree that it would be permissible to unplug yourself from the violinist? What conclusions about abortion should we draw from this thought experiment?
2. What is the extreme view? What are Thomsons objections to the view? Do you find her objections compelling?
3. Thomson claims that the notion of a right to life cannot be interpreted as a right to the bare minimum one needs for continued life. Why does she claim this? What, according to Thomson, does having a right to life amount to? Do you agree with her about this?
4. Why doesnt Thomson think that abortion always involves unjust killing? What does the justice of abortion depend on, according to Thomson?
5. Under what conditions (if any) do you think a woman grants a fetus the right to use her body?
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