(January 19, 2019 at 1:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 19, 2019 at 1:03 pm)Yonadav Wrote: Personally, I have never been convinced that there is any such thing as reproductive rights. Just because you can have a baby doesn't mean that you have a right to have a baby. A lot of people say that the right to have a baby follows from the ability to have a baby. I disagree. I don't think that it follows. The right to do a thing never follows from the ability to do a thing, except for apparently in this one matter. That's a bit odd.
Good thing in a free society you don't get to decide for everyone else what our laws are. Places where only one sect of society controls everything are closed authoritarian states. Go live in one, say North Korea or Iran or Saudi Arabia then come back here and complain about other's lives you have no say in.
Nobody is saying it is a child's fault what class or economic status they are born into. It is is simply better to address economics and education than to make abortion a social issue when it is a personal choice.
I didn't say that I get to decide what the law is for everyone else. I just said that I don't think that 'reproductive rights' is a real thing. I think that it is a term that confuses the issue. It is difficult to have an honest discussion about reproductive rights and responsibilities because so many people are expressing their worldview as if their worldview is the law, and a lot of wonky logic is being applied that doesn't work on any other issue.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
