{"id":207834,"date":"2019-08-02T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207834"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:51:40","slug":"not-bodily-autonomy-heres-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/not-bodily-autonomy-heres-know\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not about bodily autonomy. Here’s how we know."},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Secular Pro-Life<\/a>)\u00a0We’ve all heard the argument that begins “You must not really<\/b><\/i> care about saving lives because you don’t [fill in the blank with the policy preference du jour<\/i>]. You’re just about controlling women’s bodies!” And when we’re feeling uncharitable, we can always throw it right back at them: they don’t really<\/i><\/b> care about bodily autonomy, because if they did, they’d promote legalizing raw milk, or allowing minors to get tattoos, or whatever.<\/p>\n

But I try to be charitable, so let’s narrow the issues. “The debate about abortion is really a proxy battle in a war on women’s right to control their bodies” is a testable hypothesis. It’s thought experiment time.<\/p>\n

Suppose there were a bill on the table that would make it easy for women who have not been diagnosed with breast cancer, but who fear such a diagnosis in the future (due to family history, the BRCA gene, or any other reason), to obtain elective mastectomies on demand. Government budget authorities have confirmed that the proposal is financially sound. This is a law that would not cause a single human death, but that would undoubtedly increase a woman’s control of her own body.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0\u2018Bodily autonomy\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean women get to violently kill other humans<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n