Slouching Towards Oblivion

Monday, July 04, 2022

A Rerun

Overheard:

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter when life begins.

It doesn't matter whether a fetus is a human being or not.

That whole line of argumentation is a red herring - a distraction - a subjective and unwinnable argument that could not matter less.

It doesn't matter whether we're talking about a fertilized egg, or a fetus, or a five-year-old, or a Noble Prize winning pediatric oncologist.

NOBODY has the right to use your body against your will - even to save their own life, or someone else's.

That's it. That's the argument.

You cannot be forced to donate blood, or bone marrow, or internal organs, even though thousands of deserving people on the waiting lists die every year.

They're not allowed to harvest your body parts after your death without your explicit, written-signed-and-notarized, pre-mortem permission.

Denying a woman her right to abortion means she has less bodily autonomy than a corpse.



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