Good, Bad, and Captive Samaritans: Adding-in Pregnancy and Consent to the Abortion Debate
In: Women & politics, Band 13, Heft 3-4, S. 31-49
ISSN: 0195-7732
Examines pregnancy & consent within the abortion debate in the context of good samaritan arguments initiated by Judith Jarvis Thomson (1986). Drawing on legal & medical definitions, the abortion issue is reframed as the right of a woman to consent to what will be done to her body by the fetus. This argument shifts abortion rights from decisional autonomy to bodily integrity affirmed by samaritan case law. Recasting abortion as a response to nonconsensual pregnancy opens new grounds guaranteeing women's reproductive rights. 22 References. Adapted from the source document.