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Judith Jarvis Thomson, a leading philosopher who supported the idea that abortion was morally permissible, wrote the famous violinist argument. In his defense of abortion, Thomson begins by addressing the common argument against abortion. Many philosophers remain around the debate about when a fetus is considered a person or simply a piece of tissue, but Thomson says that it is necessary to take a different approach or point of view regarding abortion because that concept is an ineffective argument in favor of abortion. 'abortion. In his violinist argument, he admits that a fetus is a human being. At this point, Thomson examines the theory that everyone has the right to life, including both the fetus and the pregnant woman. However, the main focus of his argument revolves around the analogy to demonstrate that the pregnant woman does not have the obligation of absolution to sustain the life of the fetus just because she is a person or a potential person. In the violinist argument, Thomson set up the scenario where a person has been forcibly kidnapped and must be connected to an innocent and dying famous violinist for nine months to maintain his vital survival. Similarly, a woman who becomes pregnant after rape is forced to carry an innocent fetus in her body for nine months until birth. In both situations, the person and the pregnant woman did not voluntarily assume responsibility. This means that even if the fetus and the violinist were innocent, but because they did not receive permission from the host, they have no right to use the host bodies, thus making the disconnection or abortion not an unjust murder, because the woman pregnant and the person did not. t deprive them of their rights. Thomson further modified his argument by shortening the period of time the person must be connected… to the middle of the paper… because unplugging the violinist is expected to cause harm. Responding to the moral application of willing versus foreseeing harm, Thomson argued that a woman's right to abort the fetus derives from ownership of her body rather than from her intentions. scenarios like that of the violinist to counteract it. His argument does not focus on the fact that a life is finite. For some people, the act of abortion is morally impermissible because it leads to the ending of a life. However, since there is no single definition of when a fetus is considered a human being, it is not possible to provide an answer to a moral question based on that inexplicable theory. Thomson demonstrated that in specific situations such as pregnancy from rape, it is morally permissible to have an abortion.