It might be worth talking more about what we mean by bodily autonomy. Most of the current abortion debate is not about laws that prevent women from doing something with their bodies themselves but it’s about whether or not doctors can help those women by inducing an abortion in them.
Criminalizing suicide is not the same thing as criminalizing euthanasia.
From a bodily autonomy perspective, it’s not clear to me why a government shouldn’t be able to say “you are not allowed to sell this abortion pill” when the same government is allowed to say “you are not allowed to sell heroin” and “you are not allowed to sell your homebrew vaccine”. I personally do oppose FDA/EMA ability to restrict what I can do with my body.
Legalizing prostitution also feels to me about allowing bodily autonomy.
Involuntary psychiatric holds in their current form feel to me also like problematic cases of violating bodily autonomy.
In cases like abortion, euthanasia, and prostitution I do like the way German regulation goes where we try to make sensible rules that try to honor the involved tradeoffs.
I get the impression that most people who at the moment speak about bodily autonomy don’t very strongly believe in it and therefore don’t see it as a problem if that principle gets violated in other contexts than their pet political issue.
It might be worth talking more about what we mean by bodily autonomy. Most of the current abortion debate is not about laws that prevent women from doing something with their bodies themselves but it’s about whether or not doctors can help those women by inducing an abortion in them.
Criminalizing suicide is not the same thing as criminalizing euthanasia.
From a bodily autonomy perspective, it’s not clear to me why a government shouldn’t be able to say “you are not allowed to sell this abortion pill” when the same government is allowed to say “you are not allowed to sell heroin” and “you are not allowed to sell your homebrew vaccine”. I personally do oppose FDA/EMA ability to restrict what I can do with my body.
Legalizing prostitution also feels to me about allowing bodily autonomy.
Involuntary psychiatric holds in their current form feel to me also like problematic cases of violating bodily autonomy.
In cases like abortion, euthanasia, and prostitution I do like the way German regulation goes where we try to make sensible rules that try to honor the involved tradeoffs.
I get the impression that most people who at the moment speak about bodily autonomy don’t very strongly believe in it and therefore don’t see it as a problem if that principle gets violated in other contexts than their pet political issue.