Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by EPWN3D on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:56AM
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> The state will however happily violate bodily autonomy to achieve much lesser goals, like putting needles in you for blood tests or to literally kill you.
Be that as it may, it does not and cannot force you to donate your organs or blood, even as a condition of incarceration.
> The comparison goes in the right direction, but it's not quite there. Your examples are all about inaction, while terminating pregnancy generally requires action.
Not quite true. If you were hooked up to a blood transfusion machine, you'd have to unhook yourself. Maybe a better scenario would be a dialysis machine that connected one human to another human's kidney.
The state will however happily violate bodily autonomy to achieve much lesser goals, like putting needles in you for blood tests or to literally kill you.
Keeping another person alive is arguably one of the most worthy goals there is.
> That's somewhat analogous to pregnancy.
The comparison goes in the right direction, but it's not quite there. Your examples are all about inaction, while terminating pregnancy generally requires action.