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Volume 19, Issue 3-4
1 March 1999
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Abortion and Thompson’s violinist: unplugging a bad analogy Available to Purchase

Doris Gordon
Doris Gordon
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6720
Print ISSN: 0144-333X
© MCB UP Limited
1999
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (1999) 19 (3-4): 89–95.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01443339910788802

Refutes the suggestion that the mother has the right to remove herself as the life support system from an unborn child. Cites responsibilities in creating the child and argues the child is then seen as a trespasser and is punished by capital punishment.

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Abortion, Responsibility, Ethics, Politics
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