Posted by:
Jess Lurkin
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Date: October 11, 2013 06:18PM
Your position is in violation of laws against involuntary servitude. I own my body and its resources, and I get to say, within scientific limits, what and who, if anything/anyone grows there.
Besides, how do you actually define "life?" Even the Old Testament declines to define a fetus, at any stage, as the equivalent of an independently breathing human being; in fact, it doesn't define a fetus as any kind of "life" entitled to legal protection until after "quickening," several months into a pregnancy. And, just out of curiosity, do you oppose the death penalty too, and, if not, why not?
What about fertilized eggs that fail to implant? Are they also "life"? If not, why not? If so, birth control pills are a murder weapon in many, many un-prosecuted cases of homicide every day and night.
What about uncombined human eggs and sperm? Isn't every act of male masturbation mass homicide? What about human stem cells? For that matter, are human stem cells more alive than any other cells?
What about other mammals'cells (let alone whole mammals)? Or, what about all animals, including birds, reptiles and fish? Are you a vegetarian? Oh wait, plants are made up of cells too. In fact, the tastiest parts of lots of plants are really "unborn" life aren't they? Bacteria and viruses anyone? Is it really OK to eat yogurt?
Speaking of the "doctrines of men,"your reasoning seems to conveniently ignore the fact that all life is a matter of life against life, and that human reproduction always involves grave implications to other lives, but most especially to the life of host/mother of that life. Are you aware that up until the end of the 19th century 20% of women eventually died of causes related to child birth?
However shocking though, that's completely beside the point. The bottom line is that I'm a free human being and, as such, the sovereign of my own body. Therefore, I deeply resent your (or anyone else's) presumption of any right to determine what/who, if anything/one, has any right to occupy me, for any length of time, for any reason whatsoever, against my will. Please mind your own reproductive organs and let me mind mine.