Why Abortion Is Immoral By Don Marquis

Don Marquis pointed out that abortion is serious wrong morally.His’ article,”Why Abortion Is Immoral?”,has been highly anthologized at April 1989. Marquis just explains why abortion is immoral without assuming the personhood of the fetus.It totally skips the argument of Judith Thomson, which is about the right of the mother to choose abortion. Also, Marquis criticizes the argument between anti-abortion and pro-choice always uses the same points to attack each other.It is the result of the stand-off results and forming a vicious cycle. However, he claims his argument can avoid the stand-off result in the debate of whether the fetus has the right or not by the FLO theory alone. And then, is it really correct in ethics aspect?In my opinions,

I want to use the modified example of Judith Thomson’s violinist to make Marquis cannot solve his argument. There is a famous unconscious violinist, who has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment and have a special blood. The Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help.And then, they have kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital tells you that we are sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you! we would never have permitted it if we had known. But now, they did it, and the violinist is now plugged into you.To unplug and cannot find this special blood, which is only 0.01% of the people in the world having it in these two days, he will die. However, if you wait a nine months, he can fully recover. And then, can you use nine months to help him? You even do not who he is and have not do anything to hurt him. The patient’s right of the FLO does not automatically translate into your duty to preserve his FLO. We can see an abortion as a patient. The supporter of abortion might say a fetus’s right to life does not entail its right to use someone else’s body to preserve its life. This implies the woman has no duty to preserve the FLO of the fetus. However, an opponent of abortion might point out a woman’s right to use her own body does not entail her right to end someone else’ life in order to do what she wants with her body. This implies the woman has the duty over the loss of FLO of the fetus. We should more care the right of a fetus. Two sides explain their argument clearly.This a stand-off result. That is why we cannot know which one is correct: the fetus’s right of FLO and the woman’s duty to preserve the fetus’ FLO. It is unclear to define