Topic: Abortion
Quote: The validity of the violinist arguement might change if the analogy is to the fetus becoming a person some time into the pregnancy. Then the violinist analogy might be go something like this:
Response: How about: A woman wakes up to find herself connected to a body. A body without a brain, which is using her own organs to be alive. Doctors are preparing to transplant a brain from a dying violinist into this new one connected to her and the date is set in the future. Would it be morally correct to disconnect herself and kill this body that has no identity, mind, consciousness or existence in actuality?
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