The Supreme Court has kept a key abortion drug available for now. Still, Democrats will highlight the consequences of abortion bans as a midterms campaign theme, elevating what could be another weakness for Republicans, who are already underwater on a host of other issues, including cost-of-living concerns, skyrocketing healthcare costs and the ongoing war in Iran.
The high court on Thursday blocked a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that would have prevented healthcare providers from mailing mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most abortions. The court’s decision — which sparked livid dissents from its two most conservative members and fierce criticism from abortion opponents — will stay in effect while a challenge filed by the state of Louisiana makes its way through the courts.
A woman’s right to decide what happens to her body is not a crime. Reproduction isn’t a right, it’s a choice.
I have a right to live, it doesn’t mean the nearest person with two working kidneys owes me one if I were about to die without it.
But nobody denies a woman the right to decide what happens with her body? At some point some women decide to have sex (an act meant for reproduction), then don’t take readily available plan B (which is available OTC in every state) and then when a fetus begins to develop, has it’s own DNA, heartbeat etc…this woman decides she wants it out of her body…I don’t see why the healthcare system should be assisting at this point. Should it also assist with mutilating organs, chopping off hands and doing other stupid things? Because people have rights for their bodies. Having a fetus is not a violation to somebody’s body rights.
If you are going to die without a kidney I would say it is a much higher priority for the healthcare system than somebody having an unwanted pregnancy (perfectly normal condition)
So you agree I am owed a kidney if I need one to live?
You’re missing the analogy. I’m talking about bodily autonomy. Does my right to live supercede someone else’s discomfort? Sure, it’s an operation with some dangers, but those are minimal in the face of my certain death.
Furthermore, Plan B isn’t available everywhere, it costs money, doesn’t always work, and pregnancy can come with totally normal complications. But more to the point, anyone carrying a pregnancy has a right to bodily autonomy.
Owed? I don’t think anyone is owed anything by default. I think someone who needs a kidney is a much higher priority than someone who wants an abortion.
I don’t think the term “bodily autonomy” is applicable to abortions at all. You can already do whatever the heck you want with your body. I don’t think though that the healthcare system should be a part of it unless there is a medical condition that requires treatment. A normal pregnancy is just not that, it is a perfectly normal healthy condition.
Speaking of “costs money”, I don’t get this argument at all. Especially in the US, where it just costs money to live your life. It is often illegal to be homeless and illegal not to pay taxes (that left wibg people advocating for) therefore just being alive is taxed. So I don’t have a problem with a “tax” on leisure sex.
That means no one has a right to reproduce, if no one is owed anything. I was basing my argument on yours, that there are inalienable rights. If you don’t agree with yourself, we have no argument.