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My body, my choice (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days 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] 8 points 6 days ago

All of the unethical dilemmas I see here arise because having money isn't a choice, you have to have it, and people can then decide to sacrifice their autonomy for money.

So, yeah, bodily autonomy is an unquestionable right, but so is the right to exist. And when both of those rights aren't adequately protected, they eat each other.

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