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Beckwith Evaluates Several Arguments for the Permissibility of Abortion and Concludes

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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.
-Thomson grants that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception.


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Loaded Die

Refers to a die that has been tampered with to make certain outcomes more probable than others.

Null Hypothesis

An initial statement that there is no effect or no difference and that any observed variation is due to chance, used as a starting point for statistical testing.

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Level Of Significance

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