You can stand up for your opinion/religion but you can't force that opinion/religion on other people no more than jews/muslims/hindus can force their religion on you without a gun to your head. Any law has to apply to all. The same as if muslims become the majority you won't just accept Sharia. Government shouldn't be in the personal decision making + religion business.
The society we live in has already established bodily autonomy is not absolute, hence drug usage is illegal, or suicide attempts are met with forced hospitilizations. If one can't kill oneself without risking forced medical intervention, or use drugs without running afoul of the law, why would abortion be in some vaulted, unquestionable status? After all, all 3 are my body, my choice.
Yet everyone expressed extreme distress when they were being coerced to take the vax to save their jobs. So which is it? Bodily autonomy or not? It's bodily autonomy.
You can stand up for your opinion/religion but you can't force that opinion/religion on other people no more than jews/muslims/hindus can force their religion on you without a gun to your head. Any law has to apply to all. The same as if muslims become the majority you won't just accept Sharia. Government shouldn't be in the personal decision making + religion business.
The Republic exists to protect the rights of the people, and one of those rights is the right to life.
We can vote on candidates for office and on laws. But we cannot vote on whether or not to deprive people of their rights.
Bodily autonomy is also a human right. You deprive one right to protect another. This is a no win.
The society we live in has already established bodily autonomy is not absolute, hence drug usage is illegal, or suicide attempts are met with forced hospitilizations. If one can't kill oneself without risking forced medical intervention, or use drugs without running afoul of the law, why would abortion be in some vaulted, unquestionable status? After all, all 3 are my body, my choice.
Yet everyone expressed extreme distress when they were being coerced to take the vax to save their jobs. So which is it? Bodily autonomy or not? It's bodily autonomy.