Judith Jarvis Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. She is currently Professor Emeritus at MIT. Abortion: Whose Right? — Final ResponseFinal Response Judith Jarvis Thomson Abortion: Whose Right?The idea that a fetus has rights cannot be bypassed as nonsense. We have to take the idea seriously. Judith Jarvis Thomson with responses from Donald H. Regan Douglas Laycock Drucilla Cornell Peter de Marneffe Philip L. Quinn