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What the frick is this argumentMinority communities are specifically targeted by pro-choice campaigns because fetal tissue + organs are ridiculously valuable to pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies. It's no exaggeration to say that the minority underclass of the United States is being liquidated to prop up US oligarchs. Did you forget that fetuses have rights too?1) Men can't become pregnant, so they can't decide to have an elective abortion. Whatever right to abortion that purportedly exists doesn't apply to them for that reason. Full stop.2) Negative rights are actions that demand non-interference from others in order to function. Abortion, as an action, requires at least two participants. That's why it categorically cannot be classified as a negative right. (1)
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To answer your questions: YESConservatives would simply never even think to regulate the freedom of men to be sovereign over their own bodies like this. Their base wouldn't have it.Their resistance to gun control is a good parallel. Guns are the number one cause of death of minors, yet Conservatives refuse to act. Curious how that concern with the life of children ends the moment protecting them no longer involves controlling women.There is zero room to call such hypocrisy "pro life" IMO. (1)
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Roe was problematic for several reasons.The first was that it prohibited states from deciding the issue of abortion. Anti-abortion states were forced to accept abortion regardless of the will of the electorate. The second was that it invented a negative right out of whole cloth by asserting that women (and only specifically women) have an inalienable right to abortion based on medical privacy.Ignoring for the moment that all rights are universal and inalienable, SCOTUS asserted that a positive right was essentially a negative right, and that no state could interfere for that reason. (1)
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A lot of intellectually honest libs acknowledged that Roe was shitty as a legal decision even if they're pro-choice. They were just ignored.
But as others have observed, if "bodily autonomy" were a real legal principle why does it only get raised in the context of abortion? Why shouldn't it protect my right to smoke? Do drugs? Get surgeries? Sell my organs? Kill myself? etc. etc.
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It should, but it doesn't protect your right to own drugs, or to transact in same
It should
As above, you can get whatever surgeries you want, but the government has an interest in regulating what you do with those organs afterwards, and especially regulating whether you can sell them
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One thing you'll notice is that the government could attempt to regulate not the abortion proper, but the procedure used to perform the abortion, or the monetary transaction that paid the doctor that performed the abortion, or the medical licensing that permitted them to do it, or any number of other things. But all that is excluded by the Roe v Wade ruling, which was expressly on the grounds of medical privacy. If a doctor says a procedure is necessary, then the government has to allow it.
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The people arguing for abortion on the grounds of bodily autonomy will also cite it as a reason you shouldn't be allowed to own guns
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It should and the world is catching up to that point.
Honestly I think the right to keep yourself safe is a good thing in the long run because most people no matter how good a life they lived die miserably in the end, so I see a society where you can keep yourself safe before the worst moments as a good thing and an upgrade.
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