On Abortion, Killing, Murder, Tearing Limbs, Throwing Out Heads, and Personal Responsibility

By Dov Fischer

You may want to view this movie on your streaming device: Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer.

Of course women have the right to determine control of their bodies. No one should touch them without their permission, peck them on the cheek, stroke their hair, lay a shoulder across their arms. And of course no one has the right to kiss them on the lips, thrust a tongue into their mouths (think: Al Franken), grab at their breasts or lower genitalia (think: Cory Booker), or such without their permission. 

Women absolutely have absolute right to their bodies.

The dilemma is that, by the way that nature exists, an independent living body sometimes emerges to take both form and life within some women’s bodies. That complicates things. Does a woman have the right to say “Kill this emerging life inside of me, this other body that soon is destined to live completely independently of mine?” For that matter, does a conjoined (“siamese”) twin have the right to pay a doctor or a Mobster to kill the other twin attached to her? On the one hand, the targeted victim is a separate life; on the other hand, that intended victim is interfering with the autonomy of the sister............To Read More....