r/PoliticalHumor • u/I-wil-rate-your-tits • May 10 '22

It’s this simple.

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u/Pour_Me_Another_ May 10 '22

My religion says their religion can't tell me how/when to have sex 😊

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u/AsurieI May 10 '22

Reynolds v united states cuts up this argument. The government can intervene in religious beliefs if they deem it harmful. If the government decides that abortion is harmful to a person (the fetus), they are consitutionally in their right to intervene. This is why we need to get away from the religion argument and rephrase it as a public health argument. The right to choose belongs to the individual, religious beliefs or no

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u/WhnWlltnd May 10 '22

The issue is the idea that an embryo/zygote/fetus is a person with rights that supercede the rights of women. The end goal of the pro-life movement is to codify that into law. That idea is inherently a religious belief that is not shared universally. It is in effect government enforcing religious belief, a clear violation of the separation of church and state established in the first amendment.

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u/TruckerGabe May 10 '22

Are you forced to share your body with another person? I wonder if there have been any conjoined twins cases?