TashJGirl

I think most people would agree with that statement.

However, let’s dig deeper into what that means.

*People should be able to commit suicide.*  By that, I don’t mean that there shouldn’t be suicide prevention or intervetions, especially since most people who commit suicide are depressed.  However, if a person is mentally healthy and has a terminal illness, it should be up to that person to determine if, when, where, and how to end his or her life.  Doctors should not be prohibited from offering the last relief to terminal patients.  Of course, there are those who will always cheat, regardless of regulations, try to find a way to cheat so fears about elderly being killed for their money by family members.  And, as if that’s not happening now.  I don’t believe that those instances will increase.  Or that doctors will refuse to treat older patients because they’ll advocate assisted suicide.

*People should be able to sell their body parts.*  If a person can donate a kidney, why should that person not be able to sell it, and benefit from it as well?  Regulating this to some degree will be more beneficial than forcing people, who can afford to,  to go to 3d world countries and buy parts from poor people there?  Don’t pretend it’s not happening.  It is, and it’s dangerous because we have better medical care here.  Why not allow people here to do that legally?   People rent wombs, which is a surrogate pregnancy and those women are compensated.  Why not be compensated for selling a kidney or part of your liver?  And if a person wants to sell both kidneys, knowing that it’s fatal, it’s still his/her choice.  Why not be able to provide for his/her family in the mean time?

*People should be able to earn an income legally through sex.*  This is certainly not a “moral” statement, but if you really think about it, if you really own your body, you should be able to earn a living by any means (without hurting anyone).  If  you feel that your calling in life is to be a prostitute (male or female), you should be able to do that legally.  If you truly own your body, you should be able to decide how you use it.

*Abortion should be legal, in all cases.*  Again, not a “morality” statement, just a logical next step from agreeing that people own their bodies.  A woman is a living, breathing, existing human being and should be in charge of her life and her body.  If she decides that having a child is not something she wants to do, it should be completely legal for her to have an abortion.  The life of a potential human being (an embryo until it’s born at which point it becomes a baby) should never be superior to the life of an existing human being, the woman.  Of course I’m not talking about a stable family where the father is in the picture.  He should definitely have input in that case, but ultimately, it’s the woman’s choice.

I understand that these opinions are not necessarily popular.  These are also not necessarily socially approved.  However, these are the logical conclusions, at least as I see them.  I belive that a person should own his/her body and that neither government nor “society” should have claim on it.