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Bodily autonomy is very easily defined. Even if we accept that a fetus is a human life, not allowing a woman the right to control her body health by denying her
by komali2 3y ago
Bodily autonomy is very easily defined. Even if we accept that a fetus is a human life, not allowing a woman the right to control her body health by denying her the right to terminate pregnancy is removing bodily autonomy we grant men.
This is obvious: we don't allow the state to pass laws that require men to donate kidneys when the donation would provably save another life. We seem to believe bodily autonomy is a human right which can't be trespassed by the state. The next step in the USA is of course to enshrine bodily autonomy specifically in the constitution.
Until then however you can't argue for only women to not be allowed bodily autonomy without basically arguing that they're subhuman and deserve less human rights than men.
The only way around this is to believe the state should indeed be allowed to compel people to donate their organs. Right now we don't even tolerate corpses being compelled to donate organs. This alone could save many lives.