(October 4, 2014 at 10:01 am)Chas Wrote:(October 4, 2014 at 1:33 am)Losty Wrote: Yes. No person has the right to another person's body even if they need it to survive. My body is mine, and mine alone, and no one has any rights over it but me. Not ever under any circumstances.
No rights are absolute. One person's rights are limited by other people's rights.
The definition of when a fetus becomes a person is the crux of the abortion question. Once it is a person, the woman's right to autonomy is trumped by the baby's right to life.
If personhood is defined as starting at birth, then you can abort up to that last moment.
If personhood is defined at some earlier point, then you can't.
I disagree no one else's right to life trumps my right to my body. Why should a fetus be granted special rights that other people are not given?
