Beckwith Evaluates Several Arguments for the Permissibility of Abortion and Concludes

Beckwith evaluates several arguments for the permissibility of abortion and concludes that they all fail. He finds fault with the argument from a woman's right over her own body, the argument from abortion being safer than childbirth, and Judith Jarvis Thomson's famous "violinist" argument.
-Thomson argues that a woman can defend her life against the threat to it posed by the unborn child, even if doing so involves its death.