My Body, My Choice... Part 2

Self ownership is important to all humans. We love our freedom and should fight to keep it. No one has the right to remove your kidney without your permission. No one has the right to tell you what to think. No one has the right to kill another human being for any reason, especially not to inherit or otherwise obtain property, or to remove a rival in business, or a rival or impediment for any other kind of success, whether in love, professional, or personal ambitions. In the pursuit of this personal freedom, we have abolished slavery in this country. We have laws to protect us from each other (most of the time). And, to most, it would be unthinkable to allow the death of another for want of money or possessions. Yet, our modern society with all of its social concerns, still thinks it is acceptable to not only allow the death of our youngest members, but to proceed with their termination under the most gruesome of conditions for even the most frivolous of reasons. When a woman becomes pregnant, she conceives a totally new and distinct human being. This person has DNA that is not like the mother or the father, even if there are some similarities. This person will have a distinct personality and appearance, both of which are already determined within the unique DNA that is present at conception - the genotype is set, the phenotype may be somewhat influenced by outside forces, but will not be identical to either parent. The child may be dependent upon the mother for the duration of his or her stay within the womb (and, possibly, for a lengthy period after that); but, the mother does not "own" the child the way she owns her kidneys or heart or limbs, or even her womb. Slavery has been abolished. A mother does not have the moral right to "evict" her tennant in a way that will cause the child to die. Where I come from, landlords of buildings are not legally permitted to evict their tennants if the eviction will harm (or kill) the tennants due to unfavorable weather conditions. Lawyers may say otherwise; however, consider what many people think about a 1000 lawyers at the bottom of lake.Children do not "invade" their mother's womb - the act of sex invites them. If any sexually mature individual out there does not know that the biological function of sex is to produce offspring should go to their medical doctor and request to be sterilized for the sake of improving our gene pool.
As posted elsewhere on 6/09/2006 2:37 PM