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Homework

Article Summary

Instructions: Please
type

your responses in the following sections.

I. Thesis

What is the author’s thesis? (i.e., Ultimately, what is the author trying to argue?)

II. Major Points

Provide a summary of the major points the author makes in arguing for his/her thesis.

III. Disagreements, Objections, Worries

Articulate at least one objection, disagreement, or problem you have with the author’s article.

(Note: Don’t let the fact that your disagreement, objection, or worry is not fully developed keep you from raising it. Try to articulate it as best as possible)

IV. Discussion Questions

Provide three questions that have arisen in reaction to the reading.

A Defense of Abortion

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Autumn, 1971), pp. 47-66.

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