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Essay / Analysis of a Defense for Abortion by Judy Jarvis Thomson due to rape, but this can be challenged by exposing the flaws in his argument which relies heavily on analogy. However, objections to Thomson's explanation fail to defeat his argument. Before Thomson addresses the case of the “Violinist,” she concedes that a fetus is a person and therefore has a right to life. Now, Thomson goes on to argue that a woman's right to her body trumps a fetus's right to life. To demonstrate his position, Thomson uses a "thought experiment" involving a famous violinist. Suppose you wake up one morning and find yourself attached to an oblivious, respected violinist. The Society of Music Lovers, an organization dedicated to helping dying artists, searched all available medical records and realized that only you have the right blood type for an effective transfusion, which will certainly cure the violinist. The organization involved kidnapped you and attached its circulatory system to yours by various technological means in order to extract the poisons from its blood. If you were to disconnect or unplug from the violinist, he would die immediately, but in nine months he will have recovered and can be safely detached. Thomson concludes that a person's right to life does not trump the right to use another's body. So, if you disconnect from the violinist, you will simply deprive him of your body, to which he has no rights. However, if you continue to stay connected to the artist, you will only be showing kindness on your part. For example, the victim in the violinist example is free to leave after nine months, but during a pregnancy, a mother cannot simply leave her child after giving birth. This disanalogy is often ignored because it only reinforces Thomson's argument. Nitpicking between small differences offers no compelling logic to defeat the thought experiment. Just as opponents of Thomson's rationalization carefully attack the smallest details, one cannot distinguish which life is more valuable. Basically, in both cases, the violinist and the child die. All life has equal value and such distinctions offer no tangible contradiction to counter Thomson's example. Furthermore, an actual pregnancy has very different effects on a woman's physical and psychological condition than simply being attached to a well-known artist. This further justifies abortion, a position Thomson strongly defends, particularly in cases of non-consensual sex. Furthermore, a mother does not necessarily have more responsibilities towards her offspring than an artificially connected violinist. For some women, a fetus is a stranger and a personal connection is not obvious, even if a biological connection is. In addition, pregnancy has adverse consequences on the woman's body and not every woman has the desire to resist such a situation. Also, the
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