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  • Essay / Article by Sidney Callahan: Legalization of abortion?

    The pro-life feminist believes that the autonomy of the body is not generalized in the presence of a fetus. In the case study of Bob and Linda Thompson, a married couple with two children who found themselves pregnant after an IUD failed, the pro-life husband was delighted with the news and informed the children, while the wife wants an immediate abortion. the four-month-old fetus in order to pursue his career. Callahan reportedly agrees with her husband and believes that Linda should continue with her pregnancy, because the right to control her body does not give her the right to control her child's body. This fetus is immature and helpless, and although it is not yet a person, it is becoming one. Callahan believes that "women will never be able to realize feminist goals in a society permissive toward abortion" (Callahan 161) and disagrees with the views of philosophers Harrison and Petchesky. Additionally, although Linda believes it is her body and she has control over what she does with it, Callahan disagrees because another body will result from this 266 day pregnancy, and the process is genetically ordered. Fetal abortion is not like organ donation because fetal development is an ongoing process, and Callahan has difficulty differentiating the time after conception when immature life