Dose the mother have the right to control her own body?

Question

First of all, a baby is not part of its mother's body. It is an individual human being, with its own separate body. To be sure, the mother is "feeding" the inborn baby, but does a mother have the right to stop feeding her baby after it is born? This would be murder by starvation, and to cut off the source of life for a preborn baby is also a morally culpable act.

Answer 1

A woman has the right over her own body, regardless of whether there is a zygote, embryo, or fetus present. It is not a "baby," regardless of the necessity of that word for emotional appeal.

Look, here's my take on things: if you are so opposed to abortions, then stop trying to make them illegal and make them unnecessary. Work to provide better free or at least affordable health care. Work to improve sex education for our youth. Make birth control easily accessible and cheap. Establish better support for women who wish to give up a child for adoption. Provide better assistance to people of low incomes who have children.

THOSE are the major contributing factors to abortion procedures, and if you and all other anti-choice protestors are so caught up in fixing things, then FIX THOSE THINGS.

I'm pro-choice, because in our society women need to have that option. I'd love for elective abortions to be completely unnecessary--and so I am trying to fix the problems that lead to them, rather than trying to punish women already in difficult situations by removing their rights.

Answer 2

A baby that is born is an individual human being with its own separate body. A fetus that is still in its mother's womb is part of the mother's body. The mother's body goes through changes to carry a baby. So yes she has the right to control her own body.

Answer 3

I dont understand your question, but Ill do my best none the less. A woman has the right to decide whether her body is going to be the home of another person, even if only for 9 months. She doesnt, however, have the right to kill a child that has been born. After all, lawfully speaking, a child is not a child until the day of its birth. We celebrate birth days, not the day of conception.

Answer 4

why do you post questions that you don't want an answer to?

would you force a rape victim to have a baby she doesn't want or would you force them to go through a traumatic pregnancy?

Would you open your home to all unwanted children? Do you give to charities that feed the poverty stricken? If not, then butt out

Answer 5

OK, that's enough go to a different forum, You may need to get some mental help by the looks of things. I tried to answer your question. You are asking the same Q over and over just in different words. It's time to move on.

Answer 6

Well, it's legal...so you have to just deal with it. And abortion has NOTHING to do with immigration. Why do you insist on posting this trash in the wrong category everyday? I don't get the point, really.

Answer 7

Depends on what you mean by control thier own body.

Prostitution is illegal in most places (so I guess that takes away the right to control thier body)

There are many illegal drugs and it is illegal to put them into your own body (so I guess that takes away the right to control thier body)

An individual who attempts to kill themselves will often be locked up so that they cannot harm themselves ( so I guess that takes away the right to control thier own body)

But for some insane reason it is okay to murder a child that is growing inside of you. (Because a woman has a right to control her body)

HMMMMM

Answer 8

And This Is Posted Under Immigration Because .... ?

Answer 9

Try posting this question in Law & Ethics, not Immigration!!!

Answer 10

you're right...that's murder.

but the mother does have the right to control her own body.