Judith Jarvis Thompson, pro-choice professor at MIT:
“I am inclined to think also that we shall probably have to agree that the fetus has already become a person well before birth. Indeed, it comes as a surprise when one first learns how early in its life it begins to acquire human characteristics. By the tenth week, for example, it already has a face, arms and legs, fingers and toes; it has internal organs, and brain activity is detectable.”
Judith Jarvis Thompson Rights, Restitutions & Risk (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968) 1
