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"If you don't own yourself, you own nothing." (Original Post) kpete May 2022 OP
Bodily autonomy is the backbone of true freedom Farmer-Rick May 2022 #1
Without self determination... 2naSalit May 2022 #2
Exactly. niyad May 2022 #3
Indeed! nt Wounded Bear May 2022 #4
The Constitution only applied to white land owning men SoonerPride May 2022 #5
I've been saying the same exact thing nuxvomica May 2022 #6
Profound and true, the fundamental natural right bucolic_frolic May 2022 #7
4th Amendment HighFired49 May 2022 #8
If you don't own yourself, you're a slave Nululu May 2022 #9

Farmer-Rick

(10,195 posts)
1. Bodily autonomy is the backbone of true freedom
Tue May 10, 2022, 09:18 AM
May 2022

It is a waste of time talking to forced birth supporters though. They talk about souls and their imaginary gods. They squeal "the sanctity of life" but they really mean the fetus has special privileges to use a woman's body against her will.

Honestly though, the arguments for forced birth are so rediculus that I think it's more about the Supremes having stock in the abortion pill corporations Danco labs and Genbiopro. You know the price of abortion pills will skyrocket on the black market. Just like oxycodone, it's going to be everywhere and cost about the same as other illegal drugs. Like Purdue Pharmacies and the criminal Sackler family made huge profits off of illegal oxycodone, so will Danco labs and Genbiopro make huge profits when the forced birth supporters get their way.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
5. The Constitution only applied to white land owning men
Tue May 10, 2022, 10:36 AM
May 2022

Not to people of color, who were only 3/5th of a person anyway.
Not to women, obviously.
And not even to poor whites who owned nothing and therefore had no voice.

Our current supreme court wants to take us back to those times.

The only people that matter are rich, white, and male.

The rest of us can get back in our place.

nuxvomica

(12,433 posts)
6. I've been saying the same exact thing
Tue May 10, 2022, 10:40 AM
May 2022

Without that fundamental right, so fundamental it's obviousness escapes frequent reflection, none of your other rights mean anything. To put it simply enough so Republicans can understand, you cannot have free speech if the government can sew your mouth shut; you cannot bear arms if the government can cut off your trigger finger.

bucolic_frolic

(43,218 posts)
7. Profound and true, the fundamental natural right
Tue May 10, 2022, 10:43 AM
May 2022

Tired of these fundamentalists having no respect for boundaries of any kind.

HighFired49

(351 posts)
8. 4th Amendment
Tue May 10, 2022, 11:18 AM
May 2022
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated

Nululu

(842 posts)
9. If you don't own yourself, you're a slave
Tue May 10, 2022, 11:28 AM
May 2022

Young women are now slaves.

It's beyond disgusting. It's evil, cruel, and many will die.

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