[ladysycamore]

Originally posted by Radar
We own our own bodies regardless of whether or not there is a fetus growing inside of us. We each have sole dominion over our bodies, minds, and lives, and nobody including government has any legitimate authority to tell someone else what they must or must not do with thier body.

Ok, so it's perfectly fine to decide that you want to have a baby, only to put it's life in jeopardy right before it was born for vanity reasons?

She was willing to let the fetus out, but not at the cost of having herself cut. She, and she alone has decision making power over her body and should not be punished under any circumstances for choosing not to go through surgery whether or not something growing inside her would live or not.

Tell that to the twin that lived. Don't expect him or her to feel the same way.

She is under no obligation to go through surgery and government has no legitimate authority to make her or to punish her if she doesn't.

"To make her"...no. "to punish her"...yes. Even if the charge isn't murder, it'll be something else, and rightfully so.

To say she should be punished for choosing not to have surgery (regardless of what occurred as a result of that decision) is to say that...

She was irresponsible.

...we are slaves and the government has more claim on our bodies, minds, and labor than we do for ourselves. In other words we the people are property and our owner is the government.

A woman isn't forced to be pregnant...that is her choice. She also must take on the responsibility to put that unborn child's needs FIRST above her OWN, and if that means get the damned C-section if the doctor strongly recommends it!

Of course the reality is that government is the servant and we the people are its masters. And the powers granted to government are very limited in scope.

Well then, she also had the choice to NOT become pregnant if the "horrors" of pregnancy and all that comes with it was too much to bear. Nothing's been decided yet.