LewRockwell By Tony Pivetta
Camels & Gnats
Let me get this straight. You’re saying they know it’s a baby?
Surely, they have a sneaking suspicion. They just say the issue is moot. Whether it’s a baby or not, the woman alone should decide whether to bring the thing to term. The woman is a full-fledged human being with full-fledged human rights. The bloated sack of protoplasm she carries is nothing more than a quasi-human being with quasi-human rights. Full-fledged human rights trump protoplasm quasi-rights, no matter how bloated.
They may say, “Her body, her choice.” As if that clinches the matter. As if the peculiarities of the case don’t render application of the principle excruciatingly thorny. As if “her body, her choice” hasn’t proven maddeningly elusive in a wide range of applications far less thorny.
No woman has a right to shoot heroin into her own veins or snort cocaine into her own nostrils. No woman has a right to work for a healthcare provider without submitting to a dodgy injection. No woman has a right to drive a car without fastening her seatbelt. You might think that if a woman has a right to do what she chooses to her body when it comes to abortion, then a fortiori she has a right to do what she chooses to her body when it comes to drug use, vaccine refusal, or driving without a seatbelt. What does “her body, her choice” mean anyway?
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