ABSTRACT
Jack Mulder additionally defends a third premise relating to animalism, arguing that the human organism begins to exist at conception. Philosophers have been discussing the issue of head transplants in their writings on personal identity for decades. It may be the case very soon that this will no longer be a science-fiction scenario. Judith Jarvis Thomson herself acknowledges this; she notes that the violinist example may be more analogous to pregnancy due to rape as opposed to pregnancy due to consensual sex, yet she notes that, from a pro-life perspective, this difference should not be morally significant. Sometime early in the 8th month the author's wife, an RN who at the time was working in an infertility clinic asked the Dr. she was working for what he thought of her discomfort. He examined her and said that he could not be certain but thought that she might be having twin.
