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WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Bodily Autonomy: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Your body is your sovereignty—not the state’s property. I’ll fight laws treating women as incubators instead of full citizens.

⚖️ 1. History’s Injustice: When Women Were Legal Property

  • Coverture Laws erased married women’s legal personhood. Wives couldn’t own property, control earnings, or refuse sex. Their bodies served husbands’ interests.

  • Rape as a "Property Crime" punished violations against fathers/husbands—not women. Your autonomy meant nothing.

  • Legacy Today: Anti-abortion laws echo coverture, prioritizing control over consent.

➡️ Conservative Rebuttal: "Abortion bans protect life!"
✅ FACT: If "life" mattered, conservatives would fund prenatal care. Instead, they cut Medicaid and maternal programs while criminalizing miscarriage.

✊ 2. Bodily Autonomy Is a Human Right

  • Philosophical Foundation: No person—born or unborn—has the right to use another’s body without consent (Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist experiment).

  • Global Standards: The WHO and U.N. affirm abortion access as essential healthcare. Denying it is gender-based violence.

  • U.S. Hypocrisy: Organ donation is always voluntary—even postmortem. Forcing pregnancy treats women as second-class.

➡️ Conservative Rebuttal: "Fetuses have rights!"
✅ FACT: No right supersedes bodily sovereignty. You can’t force a parent to donate a kidney to their dying child—why force pregnancy?

🚨 3. Modern Authoritarianism: The War on Women

  • Forced Birth as Punishment: Lawmakers admit bans aim to "force women to be responsible" (code for controlling sexuality).

  • State Surveillance: Georgia investigates miscarriages; Alabama jails rape victims for abortions.

  • Global Harm: Gutting USAID caused 70,000+ preventable maternal deaths—exposing "pro-life" lies.

➡️ Conservative Rebuttal: "States should decide!"
✅ FACT: My body isn’t up for vote. Slavery and segregation were "state rights" issues too.

✨ Our Plan: Freedom Over Control

  1. Pass the Equal Rights Amendment to constitutionally guarantee bodily autonomy.

  2. Decriminalize Abortion Nationwide (follow Canada’s healthcare model).

  3. Restore Global Leadership: Fund UNFPA and strike Hyde Amendment restrictions.

  4. Expand Midwifery/Doula Access: Put birth choices back in women’s hands.

Stand with me to end the era of state-owned bodies.

Sources

Coverture laws: Married Women’s Property Acts (19th c. legal texts), Judith Jarvis Thomson: "A Defense of Abortion" (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1971), WHO/U.N. statements on reproductive rights (2020–2024), Alabama abortion ban analysis (Amnesty International, 2023), USAID cuts impact (Boston University Impact Counter, 2025), Georgia miscarriage investigations (The Guardian, 2024)

"They control our wombs because they fear our power."
—Reproductive Justice Rally, Denver (2024)