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My body, my choice (lemmy.world)

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[–] partial_accumen 19 points 3 months ago (22 children)

The OP makes a clear vision of bodily autonomy, but I question whether the apparent author, Pete Alex Harris, believes it absolutely.

Lets explore what "Bodily autonomy is an essential and unconditional liberty" allows:

the easy one is legal abortion (and I absolutely agree with this)
legal suicide
legal consumption of any and all substances even those that can cause massive bodily damage or death. This can mean drugs of course, but could also mean choosing to work in asbestos mines if you so choose to without the law being able to stop you or your employer.
legal selling of your organs. You have two kidneys and two lobes of your liver, those should be up on ebay if you want them to be?
legalizing cottage industry of selling your own sperm or ovum at retail if you want

I actually agree with some of the above should be legal, but the possibilities of coercion for groups at risk to be forced into some of these to survive raises some troubling ethical questions. If we accept the above absolutely, are we creating markets for human suffering?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You can legalize consumption of anything you want to put in your body, but criminalize sell, purchase and possession.

You can legalize the individual working in unsafe conditions if they so wish, but criminalize any one from running a company with unsafe conditions.

You can legalize consumption of your own brrast mill cheese, other that of others, but criminalize companies from selling it.

I don't see how those 3 things infringe in your bodily autonomy. People can own their bodies but there should be limits on what you can do to others.

[–] myfavouritename 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, this. If there is an employer with an asbestos mine, and an employee in the asbestos mine, one of them should be protected by the law and one of them should be required by law to provide a safe work environment.

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