Okay, I read the rest of the paper, and I have a few more comments.
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She uses analogies other than the violinist (such as a person occupying a house).
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That is another interesting analogy, however, she did not mention that if a vagrant enters your house and lives there for a year, legally you cannot remove them as they are a squatter and have to leave of their own choice...
There are many laws which precede what I believe should be made law regarding abortion. With regard to squatters, as well as CPR as I mentioned before, you are not obligated to do anything, but after a certain point or a certain amount of time, you are legally obligated to either continue CPR until an ambulance arrives, or allow the person to live in your house until he chooses to leave.
This is the same thing that I want for abortion. Most women discover they are pregnant within 5 weeks. At that point and even a few weeks after, all it takes is a pill to end the pregnancy, and the baby is nothing but a cluster of cells. However, as the author of this article states herself, by 10 weeks the baby "already has a face, arms and less, fingers and toes; it has internal organs, and brain activity is detectable". At this point I would consider it murder to abort the baby, and could only condone it in the case of medical risk to the mother.
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Women are allowed to proceed with their lives as in breathing and living when pregnant but maternal-leave can jeopardize a job not to mention pregnancy in general can challenge or break financial security. Also, pregnancy (of an unwanted child) affects the mental health of a woman as well as any relationships she has with work, boyfriend/husband, parents, etc.
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Most women don't go on maternity leave until at least 6 months gestation. And by this point they should legally be able to elect to have a c-section to remove the baby, as it would be able to live on its own. Pregnancy can't do anything to financial stability. Its actually keeping the baby that costs money. Pregnancy costs... gas to drive to the doctor's once a month? Most women don't even show until 6 months, so she wouldn't have to tell anyone she was pregnant if she didn't want to. She would just carry the baby until 23 weeks.
I also want to direct your attention towards this portion of the article.
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Second, while I am arguing for the permissibility of abortion in some cases, I am not arguing for the right to secure the death of the unborn child. It is easy to confuse these two things in that up to a certain point in the life of the fetus it is not able to survive outside the mother's body; hence removing it from her body guarantees its death. But they are importantly different. I have argued that you are not morally required to spend nine months in bed, sustaining the life of that violinist, but to say this is by no means to say that if, when you unplug yourself, there is a miracle and he survives, you then have a right to turn round and slit his throat. You may detach yourself even if this costs him his life; you have no right to be guaranteed his death, by some other means, if unplugging yourself does not kill him. There are some people who will feel dissatisfied by this feature of my argument. A woman may be utterly devastated by the thought of a child, a bit of herself, put out for adoption and never seen or heard of again. She may therefore want not merely that the child be detached from her, but more, that it die. Some opponents of abortion are inclined to regard this as beneath contempt--thereby showing insensitivity to what is surely a powerful source of despair. All the same, I agree that the desire for the child's death is not one which anybody may gratify, should it turn out to be possible to detach the child alive.
At this place, however, it should be remembered that we have only been pretending throughout that the fetus is a human being from the moment of conception. A very early abortion is surely not the killing of a person, and so is not dealt with by anything I have said here.
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This is basically what I have said. Previous to 10 weeks you can terminate pregnancy without any issue as the fetus isn't a person.
After 10 weeks, you can carry the baby for less than three more months and then have a c-section to allow it to survive.