Pants-of-dog wrote:I would say that their bodily rights are violated since the choice of using their body to create a life has been taken from them.
At least from your perspective, it's easier to argue the woman has a right to not create a life than to argue she has a right to create it, wouldn't you agree?
I questioned whether creating life is really a bodily right, since the new life she is creating is not part of her body.
That would be like saying I have the right to have sex with someone, and when you kill that person, you are violating my bodily rights because I can no longer use my body to have sex with them.
It's a totally absurd rationality (in my opinion).
The fact that the fetus will have a bodily effect on her is not in itself reason to say that she has a bodily right to it.
Unless you are trying to argue that a woman somehow has right to motherhood, but that is something else, that is not necessarily bodily rights, and even in that case, society and the law recognises there are many cases in fact where a woman may not have the right to motherhood.