The Right to Life vs. the Right to Bodily Autonomy: Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”

One-Sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Dr. Bertha Manninen of Arizona State University.Dr. Bertha Alvarez Manninen drafted this great SOPHIA One-Sheet document to talk about some important questions about America’s hottest topic: abortion, some of which arose in Episode 4 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, on “Shared Values in the Abortion Debate,” the subtitle of her book on the subject, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice. The Lexington SOPHIA Chapter is getting together on May 10th of 2019 to talk about abortion, a topic of increasing importance given recent changes to the make up of the U.S. Supreme Court and the many state laws that are likely to be tested in court.

A cropped portion of the cover of Dr. Manninen's book, which features sperm swimming, below the subtitle of the book, which is the title of this episode, as well as Dr. Manninen's name.

Logo of the Kentucky Humanities Council.SOPHIA is grateful to the Kentucky Humanities Council for a grant that supported the creation of this one-sheet document.