Beckwith Evaluates Several Arguments for the Permissibility of Abortion and Concludes

question 9

True/False

Beckwith evaluates several arguments for the permissibility of abortion and concludes that they all fail. He finds fault with the argument from a woman's right over her own body, the argument from abortion being safer than childbirth, and Judith Jarvis Thomson's famous "violinist" argument.
-Beckwith says that abortion is not killing but is the withholding of treatment.

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