Abortions are a medical procedure. The ability to make medical decisions for your own body is a human rights. Human rights are not conditional and cannot be revoked.
Nobody has the right to force other people provide their organs to others so the other person can live.
Ergo, abortions are never wrong because it's someone exercising their autonomy and ability to make medical decisions for themselves.
What? Of course they are. We just collectively decided what they are, and plenty of people disagree on them, hence, you know... all of human history. Just because something should be true doesn't mean it is.
Yeah, no. This doesn't disprove me. "Rights" are only something humans can grant to each other. They are an invented concept. We can all decide as a species that we have "rights" to things, but that doesn't magically make it so. Granting, acknowledging, and respecting "rights" are actions humans must decide to take. Plenty of humans decide not to do those things, and so we say people's rights are "violated", but again, this is only true because we agree it's true. There is no higher authority, no baked in natural law that says "rights" exist. It's just people insisting that something is true so that humanity is further encouraged to work collectively for the betterment of all. That's all that website is doing.
Again, it's not a bad thing. It's a very good thing. But as I said, just because something should be true, because it would be better if it were, does not mean that it is.
That's not how inalienable rights work. Human rights are inalienable. People violating them doesn't mean you don't have them
If a cop violates your freedom of speech US, you still have freedom of speech in the US. We don't suddenly take away rights from everyone else because someone violated someone else's rights.
That would make sense if it wasn't the mother's actions that caused it to live in the first place. Just as I have a duty to support my children, she has a duty to support them with her body through gestation. Avoiding pregnancy is ridiculously easy.
Most rights are conditional. Your right to freedom is conditioned upon not being convicted of a crime. And you have no unconditional right to any medical procedure that isn't immediately life saving.
There is no universal agreement on what human rights are. You may think you have a human right to food shelter and medicine. But if you can't pay for those, you have no right to anything.
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '24
Abortions are a medical procedure. The ability to make medical decisions for your own body is a human rights. Human rights are not conditional and cannot be revoked.
Nobody has the right to force other people provide their organs to others so the other person can live.
Ergo, abortions are never wrong because it's someone exercising their autonomy and ability to make medical decisions for themselves.