In an article that can be found on SSRN, Robin West, a prominent feminist law professor, evaluates Eileen McDonagh theory that the state funding of abortion facilitiates a woman’s right right to resist the non-consensual invasion, appropriation, and use of her physical body by an unwelcome fetus. West praises McDonagh’s theory as making the personhood of the fetus irrelevant and building on the broad consensus that government exists at its most basic level to protect citizens from bodily assault.
McDonagh’s and West’s arguments are subject to a variety of criticisms including those made against of Judith Jarvis Thompson’s violinist piece.