Thomson provides the famous case of the
A) baseball player.
B) fly.
C) violinist.
D) monkey.

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In Thomson's famous paper "A Defense of Abortion," the violinist analogy is used to illustrate a scenario in which a woman is connected to a famous unconscious violinist for nine months to keep him alive. The point of the analogy is to argue that even if the violinist has a right to life, it does not follow that he has a right to use someone else's body to stay alive. Similarly, Thomson argues that even if a fetus has a right to life, it does not follow that it has a right to use a woman's body against her will, thus providing an argument in favor of abortion rights.

Thomson Provides the Famous Case of the