Mary Anne Warren, in her essay On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, talks about one of Thomson's analogies and refutes it. ... Is Warrens discontent with Thomson grounded? ... Mary Anne Warren also talks of the rights of an un-born child. ... Warren should hold Thomson with no discontent. ... Warren is dreaming if she thinks pregnancy can be avoided in all times other than rape. ...
In Mary Anne Warren's article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she concludes that " a women's right to protect her health, happiness, freedom, and even her life, by terminating an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate to ascribe to a fetus, even a fully developed one"(Warren). ... Mary Anne Warren also joins the debate and describes six elements which contribute to a fetus not being a person in the moral community, she mentions the following: "sentience, emotionality, reason, the capacity to communicate, self-awareness, mora...
Mary Anne Warren's Argument for Abortion is that of a liberal one. ... Warren believes that abortion is legitimate because the foetus has not yet fully developed into a person and doesn't yet have moral characteristics it maybe a human being but not necessarily a person. ... Warren says that no matter how many lives would be made out of us, we should not have to give up our freedom for others. ... The weaknesses in Warren's argument are that if we support the notion that pregnancy can be terminated at any stage then abortion can end up just being another form of birth control....
