And we will continue to educate, inform and rally the public to protect and expand the fundamental human right of all people to make their own decisions about their lives. Click the issues below to learn how anti-choice politicians and activists are blocking access to abortion care. I had to decide whether to go back to work soon after giving birth, or quit my job to give myself time to recover and ensure my newborn's well being.
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Please, when you think about this issue, think about the women you know. Lydia Holm is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and mother of four boys. She lives in West Des Moines. Facebook Twitter Email. My journey from condemning to protecting abortion rights Among people you know, your friends, and your relatives and loved ones, there are women who have had an abortion.
Lydia Holm Iowa View contributor. Show Caption. Hide Caption. The second underlying claim is: a right to life is stronger than, or outweighs, a right to bodily autonomy. As we saw above, this is the weighing claim familiar to pro-life positions. It says that a right to life is morally weighty enough to tilt away from a right to bodily autonomy.
With the three claims on the table, what we can notice is that the third claim is an excusing condition on the second claim. And that means that the moral justification for the moderate pro-life positions stems from the type of act that rape is.
Read more: Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. And if it does, what happens to abortion rights? But now the incoherency reveals itself. Consider the following gloss: the moderate pro-life position says that a right to life is stronger than, or outweighs, a right to bodily autonomy, except when the fetus that has the right to life is created by a violation of … bodily autonomy.
Once we put in the work to unpack the moderate pro-life position, we see that it makes an appeal to the moral significance of bodily autonomy.
Crucially, it does this while attempting to explain why the act of rape excuses the ordinary weighting of life over autonomy. But this is incoherent.
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Women's rights arguments in favour of abortion Here are some of the women's rights arguments in favour of abortion: women have a moral right to decide what to do with their bodies the right to abortion is vital for gender equality the right to abortion is vital for individual women to achieve their full potential banning abortion puts women at risk by forcing them to use illegal abortionists the right to abortion should be part of a portfolio of pregnancy rights that enables women to make a truly free choice whether to end a pregnancy This argument reminds us that even in the abortion debate, we should regard the woman as a person and not just as a container for the foetus.
Abortion affects women disproportionately Abortion is an important element of women's rights because women are more affected by the abortion debate than men, both individually if they are considering an abortion and as a gender.
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