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1Another Defense of Abortion: What Transplant Ethics Tells Us about the Ethics of Abortion after DobbsHastings Center Report 54 (3): 28-34. 2024.In 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade affirmed federal protection for abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson attempted to demonstrate the wrongs of forced gestation through analogy: you awake to find that the world's most esteemed violinist is wholly, physically dependent on you for life support. Here, the authors suggest that Thomson's intuition, that there is a relevant similarity between providing living kidney support and forced gestation, is realized in the contemporary practice of living organ do…Read more
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Metaphysics |
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Philosophy of Mind |
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