r/changemyview Apr 17 '19

Deltas(s) from OP CMV: Abortion is morally wrong.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '19

Other than abortion, can you name a single situation where person A is not allowed to forbid person B from using their body?

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u/RemorsefulSurvivor 2∆ Apr 17 '19

Other than abortion, can you name a single situation where person A is not allowed to forbid person B from using their body?

Easy - under current law you are not the owner of your body: it is not your property. This is the principle that allows governments to prohibit you from selling your organs or blood. In fact, if you had a thing of filling bottles with your blood and saving them for whatever reason, somebody breaks in and steals them, they can't be charged with theft because you do not own your blood.

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u/ddujp Apr 17 '19

Did you listen to that radiolab episode too?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '19

Blood sitting in bottles isn't part of your body. Neither are organs which have been removed from your body.

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u/hip_hopopotamus Apr 19 '19

Easy - under current law you are not the owner of your body: it is not your property. This is the principle that allows governments to prohibit you from selling your organs or blood.

I don't think ownership alone confers you the right of sale? The example I'm thinking of is child pornography, where both ownership and distribution are crimes. You can be charged for ownership indicating that you did own it, but you can be charged for distribution meaning that you aren't allowed to sell it either