> control women
Very similar to conservative politicians in US trying ban abortion or limit access to it.
Very similar to conservative politicians in US trying ban abortion or limit access to it.
This isn't an argument against the right to be able to have an abortion, but it is simply not true that embryos and fetuses have no rights either, fetal rights are a pretty big subject in ethics and morality and it is not an easy one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_rights
the abortion = homicide idea is so flatly intellectually dishonest, im surprised to even see it mentioned here.
How is forcing someone to do something they dont want to do, not 'controlling'?
Whether that is there motivation or not is up for discussion, but it explicitly does control women.
Whether the motivation for the hijab is to control women could also be debated, but that is beside the point that it /does/ control women.
Whether there is another life in the balance also does not change the fact that it explicitly controls a woman's body.
I'm not taking a stance here on whether abortion should be legal or whether it represents a homicide of some kind, im simply stating that it does in fact control a womans body, regardless of the intent.
> How is forcing someone to do something they dont want to do, not 'controlling'?
I think you've basically made my point. According to your definition, handcuffing a woman to prevent her from murdering an innocent adult with an axe is also 'controlling' her body. I hope you'd agree that is an acceptable use of force in order to protect a life.
Now re-read radmuzom's comment and I think you'll see the absurdity of his comparison, which is what I wanted to point out.
Its a plainly ridiculous point to make, regardless of whether you believe abortion is murder. Pregnancy simply isnt the same thing as criminal punishment.
Forcing a woman to go through a pregnancy would pretty clearly be a cruel or unusual punishment. Or do you believe that going through a pregnancy should be the punishment for other crimes as well?
I would advise you to acquire some actual information on how fertilized eggs are frequently self-aborted and how little a fertilized egg is like a human life.