Summary Of A Selfless Brother's Box Of Chocolates

In A Defense of Abortion Thompson presents an argument against the morality of abortion by showing the superiority of women’s rights through several different analogous cases. The case of focus will be case eight, “ A Selfless Brother’s Box of Chocolates.” In scenario one, Thompson argues that an older brother has a box of chocolates while his younger brother has nothing; the question of appeal is does the younger brother automatically have a right to these chocolates? The box of chocolates represents a women’s body while the younger brother represents the fetus. Although it would be nice for the older brother (mother) to share his box of chocolates (mothers body) he is not obligated to share them with anyone even if he is perceived as selfish,

In this case, using the younger brother as a reference to the fetus, it seems as if Thompson wants to portray the fetus, as a good thing and not an evil power as it can often be analogized to, instead Thompson wants to just represent the abortion situation as a choice. This can be easily compared to an everyday situation. Every morning when we wake up we have choices such as: what we want to wear, how we want to look and so on, and in this case the mother had a choice whether or not she wants to share her body with this unborn child. This does not make the mother stingy or selfish as mentioned earlier instead Thompson suggests she is just activating her rights as a women and even though it would be nice of her to open up and share her chocolates with her younger brother or even give her younger brother more chocolates it is not necessary no matter the level of prevention methods used in this child for her to share he body of

However in my opinion this is a faulty case in both scenarios and in all ten cases since Thompson clearly recognizes that life starts at conception. If life starts at conception as mentioned, how is it to say that a mothers right is greater than the living persons inside of her? Marquis argues every person is entitled the chance of prosperity and opportunity at the start of life and therefore has the right to grow inside the mothers womb unless circumstance of rape of death are involved. At the start of life a fetus begins to think, breathe, kick, and move around all of which indicate thoughts and desires inside of the brain making this a person of desire and though. Of all the cases one thing remains in common: the fetus inside of the mother cannot voice its opinion as the mother can voice hers and because of this pro-abortion states that the woman’s rights become superior and the living fetus no longer matter? It is not because the fetus does not have an opinion or thought to its life it is because the opinion can not be