Abortion is a widely controversial topic, which can be viewed from many different perspectives and moral theories. I will primarily concentrate on Judith Thomson’s view of defending abortion and provide further insight on her stance as it pertains to Sarah’s case. As well, I will also approach Sarah’ case from Susan Sherwin’s perspective and input aspects of my own opinions to support Sherwin’s argument. Judith Thomson claims in her article that women should have the right to choose to having an abortion under the assumption that personhood begins at the moment of conception (Thomson, 152). Common arguments for abortion come from the idea that personhood does not begin right at conception, but rather at a later point in the pregnancy and thus, abortion is acceptable because personhood has not officially started. Thomson acknowledges that a fetus becomes a person before birth because it acquires human characteristics (i.e. it has a face, arms, legs, fingers, and brain activity). However, Thomson’s perspective also emphasizes that the mother has the right to decide what happens to her body. The basic argument is that the fetus is also a person, and has the right to live as a person, which outweighs that of the mother’s decision of what happens to her body (Thomson, 152). Consequently, Thomson convincingly argues that there are special cases in which the mother’s decision to what happens to her body is greater than the fetus’ right to live and thus, an abortion is permissible. In Sarah’s case, because the pregnancy is unplanned and potentially detrimental to both her academic and professional career, it would greatly support Thomson’s claim that the mother’s decision outweighs that of the fetus. I personally agree that it would be morally respectable to terminate the pregnancy in this situation, and would add on to Thomson’s theory because of the mother’s