Michael Mitchell: Archive

Logically. All the other rights logically depend on the right to life. Conceptually. You can't live without liberty and property. That womb doesn't belong to you or society or the government or even the "baby". It belongs to the pregnant person. 😂 If you don't believe pregnant people have the right to live their lives however they think is best, how can you believe "unborn babies" do?

The screwed-up terminology is hilarious to me -- as far as it's politically motivated -- but I'm not playing Devil's Advocate here. To fully believe in individual rights you have to eliminate physical force as an option for anyone. What's the difference between forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term and forcing her to get an abortion? It's the choice you're making for someone else versus the choice someone else might make for you. If you believe in forcing your beliefs on others, you don't believe in rights.

The concept of rights DOES apply differently to children -- actual, biologically-independent human beings -- but they still have the same rights as adults and the same capacity to comprehend and exercise them. They simply don't know it yet. If a fully-grown adult was living in my womb, I'd have the same right to forcibly remove it, regardless of any consequences, as I do to remove an "unborn baby". There is no conflict. Every individual has the same rights. If the pregnant woman lived inside the "unborn baby", the "unborn baby" would have the right to abort the pregnant woman.

This is obvious to anyone. It's not complicated or confusing in the least. The abortion issue isn't about when life begins. It's about when rights begin. If an "unborn baby" has rights, pregnant women don't. If pregnant women don't have rights, no one has rights. Anti-abortion advocates are anti-rights advocates. They actually believe it's right to violate the rights of others, to control other lives as parents must control their children's lives, when "necessary", but by law, i.e., government coercion, not their own power. And anti-rights is anti-choice is anti-life.