Prepare a paragraph or so for a discussion board entry on Judith Thomson’s, A Defense of Abortion.

Prepare a paragraph or so for a discussion board entry on Judith Thomson’s, A Defense of Abortion.

Below are also some links that may be helpful :

A Defense of Abortion, Judith Thomson – https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm; https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil215/Thomson.pdf

Prior to the famous Roe vs. Wade decision, we will consider here an essay that discusses the rights to life and self-defense, agency over one’s own body, and the limits to demands and responsibilities that can be placed on individuals.

-Applications https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/22/a-new-poll-shows-what-really-interests-pro-lifers-controlling-women

Some other political contexts around abortion rights –
.Nationalist (xenophobic) eugenic breeding policies (with capitalist surplus pop pressuring too) also behind anti-abortion stands –

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/04/supreme-court-abortion-pro-natalism-policies
Anti-abortion as starting from racism, anti-desegregation, dressed in religious rights, state rights against gov., ending in assaults on the human rights of the poor and racialized –

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/05/abortion-opposition-focus-white-evangelical-anger
White Nationalists marching with anti-abortion movement –

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/white-nationalists-are-flocking-to-the-us-anti-abortion-movement

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