Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Three)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Jenny Hansen joins us to cover "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" by Mary Anne Warren (1973), with more thoughts on "A Defense of Abortion" (1971) by Judith Jarvis Thomson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month of |
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| 0:15.8 | This is the partially examined life episode 301 part 3. We have been discussing abortion. |
| 0:21.8 | We were going to move on to the Marianne Warren on the moral and legal status of abortion article |
| 0:28.3 | 1973 and Seth is gone and in his place. Jenny is here. Jenny who was supposed to be here on |
| 0:36.0 | Sunday so hi Jenny Hansen. Welcome Jenny. Thanks for coming back. I always |
| 0:41.2 | a pleasure. Thank you. How's your COVID? The COVID symptoms are gone. The respiratory like |
| 0:47.6 | out of breath and it messed a little mess up my sleep and I don't have any time until the weekend |
| 0:52.1 | because you know we're in the middle of the semester so I would say on average good just you know |
| 0:57.4 | the new normal right I mean school starts and everybody gets sick. |
| 1:01.6 | Perhaps the place to start the beginning of Warren's article she you know says what she's |
| 1:05.9 | going to do and then she gives her take down of Judas Jarvis Thompson that we spent most of our |
| 1:11.2 | time on last time so we should just summarize that argument and then in the course of that if there's |
| 1:18.7 | things Jenny you just listen to our parts one and two if there are things additional about |
| 1:24.2 | the Thompson that you want to jump in on you know things you wanted to respond to feel free. |
| 1:29.1 | I think we probably voice some version of this objection the quote that I have which is section 14 |
| 1:34.4 | is if X behaves in a way which he could have avoided which he knows involves let us say a 1% |
| 1:40.3 | chance of bringing it into existence a human being with the right to life and does so knowing that if |
| 1:44.5 | this should happen and that human being will perish unless X does certain things to keep him alive |
| 1:49.2 | and it is by no means clear that when it does happen X is free of any obligation to what he knew |
| 1:53.9 | in advance would be required to keep that human being alive in other words she denies that Thompson |
| 1:58.5 | is arguing that even if it's a full person you have no obligations toward it using this violinist |
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