According to Thomson, "Similar things might be said about the development of an acorn into an oak tree, and it does not follow that acorns are oak trees, or that we had better say they are. Arguments of this form are sometimes called 'slippery slope arguments'; the phrase is perhaps self-explanatory, and it is dismaying that opponents of abortion rely on them so heavily and uncritically."

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Thomson asserts that slippery slope arguments are relied upon heavily and uncritically by opponents of abortion.

According to Thomson, "Similar Things Might Be Said About the Development