The topic is abortion. This is a paper in which you explain and attempt the refute
the arguments of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s: A Defense of Abortion. Here are the basic things you
must do for the paper:
1) Read and review Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”: https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htmhttps://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htmhttps://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm
2) Spend the first half of the paper explaining the argument of the article. Be
thorough and clear.
3) Spend the second half of the paper criticizing the article. Here you have to
think hard about what, in your view, is wrong with the author’s argument, and
articulate it in your paper as clearly as possible.
CITING: This is not a research paper. The only article you need be concerned with is
the article you choose to write about. When you are explaining the argument, you should
cite the article as you summarize and paraphrase, and you should include a direct quote
here and there as you see fit. You can cite the article simply using the author’s name and
page number in parentheses. For example, here’s what this could look like in an actual:
Warren argues that there are two different senses to the word, ‘human’: the moral sense,
and the genetic sense. The moral sense is the sense in which someone is a “full-fledged
member of the moral community,” and the genetic sense is the sense in which someone is
a member of the human species (Warren, 11).
Again, this essay will be based on “A Defense of Abortion” and can be read here: https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htmhttps://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htmhttps://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm