"I believe one of the breakdowns in our society is that we have excluded the man out of all of these types of decisions,” he said. “I understand that they feel like that is their body,” he said of women. “I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you’re a ‘host.’ And you know when you enter into a relationship you’re going to be that host and so, you know, if you pre-know that then take all precautions and don’t get pregnant,” he explained. “So that’s where I’m at. I’m like, hey, your body is your body and be responsible with it. But after you’re irresponsible then don’t claim, well, I can just go and do this with another body, when you’re the host and you invited that in.”
TURNS OUT IT'S STILL MY BODY, EVEN IF SOMETHING ELSE IS ATTACHED TO IT.
This is always couched in terms of a woman's choice because a fetus is literally inside her body, taking nutrients, squishin' organs. The man in this scenario is taking no risks with pregnancy. He won't be missing work. He won't suffer hemorrhaging if something goes wrong. His kidneys are fine. His arches don't fall. His legs don't swell. He doesn't have to either push a baby out of his vagina or have it cut from his womb.
We don't even take organs from a dead person if they haven't consented to it, because bodily autonomy is that integral to the concept of human rights.
Let's say my best friend is hurt and, to save their life, I offer to graft myself to their body. I give my nutrients, my tissues, my energy to my friend through an umbilical. I'm weaker, hungrier, at higher risk for a few medical conditions, but I've chosen to take this on for my friend.
Now let's say I don't want to do it anymore, for any reason at all. I CANNOT be forced to continue using my body as a lifeline, even if cutting that umbilical will instantly end my friend's life.
Whether or not it's ethical for me to separate myself from my friend, it's my right as a person with a body. It would be morally wrong to force me to give up my bodily autonomy, even to save another's life, even to sustain another's life that already depends on me. Even more obvious would be a case in which I did not want this graft, but it was done either against my will or despite my efforts to prevent it.
And this is my right, even if it ends the life of my hypothetical dying friend, who is an adult human with adult human rights.
And now you're telling me I have to give up those same rights for the sake of a cell-blob that I didn't ask for because a man says so?
No.
I will not.
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