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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Except women. Who don't get to own their own bodies.
I listen to all these hard on cowboy wanna bes talk about "property rights" as though their deed is some god given compact. They're so fucking quick to say they can shoot people for intruding on their "property."
But when it comes to a woman's own body... well, shit. She's got no right to control it.
Seems pretty fucking inconsistent, even to me.
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One of the strongest arguments raised by the southern slave-owners who fought to keep their slaves was that they had invested lots and lots of money in them, and they owned them - they even had titles, and registries. Any attempt to divest them of their own property was unconstitutional. Taken on its face, alone, that assertion was correct.
They missed the fact that sometimes rights collide, and then we need to decide which one, in justice and fairness, trumps the other.
In that case, it was decided that, contrary to the slave owners' assertions, the slaves were actually people, with their own rights, and a claim of property right had to yield to a right to freedom from slavery.
