Judith Jarvis Thomson proposes an analogy to the abortion question: She asks you to consider a situation where you find yourself, in a hospital bed, attached to a famous violinist via intravenous tubes. The violinist will die if you detach yourself from him before he is strong enough to live on his own.

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Judith Jarvis Thomson uses the famous violinist analogy in her defense of abortion rights to illustrate the complexity of bodily autonomy and moral obligations, suggesting that being physically connected to another being does not necessarily obligate one to sustain that being's life with one's own body.

Judith Jarvis Thomson Proposes an Analogy to the Abortion Question