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If I'm understanding that quote correctly, it's positing that the right to bodily autonomy only extends so far as it doesn't come at the expense of others, and that extending it beyond that would be equivalent to granting female suicide bombers the right to blow themselves up in public spaces.
First off, people have the right to deny others the use of their body even if their life depends on it, as with organ transplants or having to have someone's consent in order to donate their organs after their death. In the context of abortion, this means that even if treating embryos as living people, women shouldn't be obligated to carry them to term. Basically, no one has a right to use someone's body for their own gain without their consent even if their life depends on it.
Preserving bodily autonomy even at the expense of others is already in effect to protect people from being coerced into donating blood/organs without their consent the same way women can be coerced into having children they don't want when they can be charged with murder for having an abortion. The use of "does not" and "if human rights worked that way" suggests it's being presented as fact, which due to how organ transplants are handled is factually incorrect.
Second, the context of your analogy is that you're attempting to prove your point by claiming that the alternative would be equivalent to legally sanctioning terrorist attacks that would likely hurt or kill a lot of people. That's an Appeal to Extremes and probably also a Strawman Fallacy since you're preemptively discrediting counterarguments with an exaggerated analogy to make it seem less credible.
If your premise is that allowing bodily autonomy to come at the expense of others could cause problems, you should cite specific problems instead of making an exaggerated comparison to terrorist attacks. As it is, you failed to support your claim in any meaningful way. |
answered on Sunday, Jul 26, 2020 02:45:51 AM by Night | |
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"The right to do what one wants with one's own body does not extend to be able to do what one wants to do with their body at the expense of others" You have that the wrong way around, other people do not have the right to use your body without your consent. If access to your body's resources are taken away that is not analogous with blowing yourself up and taking other people with you. That is a weak analogy. If I need a liver transplant and decide that I want half of yours do you accept that your failure to hand it over would be causing harm to me, therefore you must do it? |
answered on Saturday, May 16, 2020 10:56:05 PM by Bryan | |
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