A Side of Shayracha

There's a radical concept called "bodily autonomy." It's actually, in general, considered a human right. Bodily autonomy means a person has control over who or what uses their body, for what, and for how long. It's the reason why you can’t be forced to donate blood, tissue, or organs. Even if you are dead. Even if you’d save or improve 20 lives. It’s why someone can’t touch you, have sex with you, or use your body in any way without your continuous consent. Continuous consen t, it's your body; you have the right to reject consent when you see fit. How does this apply to pregnancy? Quite frankly, a fetus is using someone’s body parts. Therefore, under bodily autonomy , it is there by permission, not by right. It needs a persons continuous consent. If they deny and withdraw their consent, the pregnant person has the right to remove them from that moment (given that moment falls into the legal range of which abortion can happen. Most happen in the fir...

There's been a huge debate going on lately because of some poorly edited videos from a group known for demonizing Planned Parenthood. When really, there shouldn't be a debate at all. We all have our own morals and own beliefs, but our own morals and beliefs can't control another person. Regardless of where you stand on abortion, I'd like to take a moment to talk about what Planned Parenthood actually does and what the people calling for it to be defunded either don't know or don't care about: First off, Planned Parenthood does not sell baby parts. It's a preposterous notion and one based on again, maliciously edited videos. What Planned Parenthood does do is donate tissues for scientific research. (Hospitals do this too.) There is reimbursement for it, but not profit. It works more like a refund, the clinics and hospitals do the work, store the tissues, and ship the tissues; the places accepting donations then compensate them for those things. It's...