On 5 Aug 2006, at 11:59PM, Dan Minette wrote:
If a women died trying to abort in a back alley, that is certainly
a human
death. But, from the right-to-life movement's perspective, 500
deaths of
women attempting abortion must be weighted against the deaths of
millions of
people when women can easily find abortions.
Isn't the real question about whether the state owns one's body or
oneself? And how women's bodies are still seen as property in a
patriarchal society? How does a state which permits and taxes the
sale of carcinogenic tobacco products and does nothing about the
obesity and diabetes causing products of the food industry have any
legitimate interest in the intimate contents of a woman's own body?
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