[Vision2020] OT WAS: RE: Ellen Goodman, baby killer...

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings: 
 
Great minds are so in tune with each other, Bob!  
 
Using a very similar thought experiment (being hooked to a famous violinist 
without your permission), Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote a now famous article for 
"Philosophy and Public Affairs."  
 
The power of Thomson's argument is that the violinist is a person, but our 
moral, legal, and religious tradition has recognized the fetus as a person only 
late in pregnancy, a position that corresponds to the Supreme Court decision of 
1973. 
 
I humbly offer my own views on this topic at 
www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/abortion.htm. 
 
Nick Gier