*something I saw on the internet, where it lacked attribution but was so right on, I share with you. OHIO (YAY) did the Job, soundly defeating Prop #1, and that’s another win for women and pregnant people we will always take, and celebrate. Bodily autonomy is a basic human right, period.
Here’s the thing, guys. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter when life begins.
It doesn’t matter whether a fetus is a human being or not.
That entire argument is a red herring, a distraction, a subjective and unwindable argument that could not matter less.
It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about a fertilized egg,
or a fetus, or a baby, or a five year old, or a Nobel Prize
winning pediatric oncologist.
Nobody has the right to use your body, against your will,
even to save their life, or the life of another person.
That’s it. That’s the argument.
You cannot be forced to donate blood, or marrow, or organs,
even though thousands die every year, on waiting lists.
They cannot even harvest your organs after your death
without your explicit, written, pre-mortem permission.
Denying women the right to abortion means we have less
bodily autonomy than a corpse.
*Amen.
