Roe V Wade : The right to choose ........ Organ Sales?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Now, I did a little bit of digging, and here's what I came up with. According to our president:

Obama Statement on 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Decision

=========="Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, it's never been more important to protect a woman's right to choose. Last year, the Supreme Court decided by a vote of 5-4 to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, and in doing so undermined an important principle of Roe v. Wade: that we must always protect women's health. With one more vacancy on the Supreme Court, we could be looking at a majority hostile to a women's fundamental right to choose for the first time since Roe v. Wade. The next president may be asked to nominate that Supreme Court justice. That is what is at stake in this election.============

Alright. So it's a right to choose. Your body is your own, so keep your hands off. The liberals at PBS are also appalled at the notion that there wouldn't be a right to choose.

No Right to Choose?

So if a woman's body is her own and all that, what if she chose to willingly sell one of her organs? Would you then say "keep your hands off"? Or would you say 'whoa whoa, you don't have a right to do that'?

A woman does, after all, have a right to choose. Or does Roe V Wade only protect the right to an abortion, and nothing more?

BTW, considering american equal protection rights, this would give men power over their own bodies too. "Keep your hands off my body", remember?

For reference: Kidney Shortage Inspires A Radical Idea: Organ Sales

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I had a thought about this yesterday, was curious what others would say.

[mukraker]

It's an interesting notion. I'm here today because an anonymous family chose to honor the wishes of someone they loved and donated their organs. I received a kidney and pancreas on July 31, 1991, thanks to their unselfish generousity.

Had I the funds, I would pay them for their gift, not becuase they should be paid, but as a small token of gratitude. I would hope they used the money for other selfless acts. Or for much needed help with whatever unfortunate situation they might be in today.

Should people be able to sell their own body parts? I say Yes, if it's an informed choice, and no life is threatened.

Shifting gears slightly....

Any elected official who just keeps complaining about Roe v Wade without taking action to overturn the case is wholly unqualified to serve in office, because he or she does not understand how laws work in this country. They need to draft legislation and see it enacted. Overturning Roe will require a State to enact legislation banning abortion. That law will make it's way to the Supreme Court, and the Court will render it's decision.

While Roe may have set a precedent, it was only binding on the parties to the case. States are still able to enact new laws on their own (see Amendment X), regardless of what SCOTUS says about prior laws. As personnel change on the court, so does the court's opinion change with time.

[a fool in paradise]

Why is it that women are not permitted to sell the sexual use of their vaginas but they can legally sell the reproductive use of it (harvesting eggs or a womb for rent)?

And why can’t I sell a kidney?

[a fool in paradise]

Walter Williams has raised this point a number of times in talk radio.

I haven’t heard from him in over a year. I don’t know if my city just stopped carrying his program or if he no longer has a show. He also used to sub for Rush Limbaugh but when people get picked up for syndication by competing outfits sometimes the never make it back to Rush’s sub list.

[library user]

And why can’t I sell a kidney?

You're just not trying hard enough.

[library user]

The right to choose ........ Organ Sales?

Never get between a man and his organ. Looks like he's quite content.

[CharlesWayneCT]

You don’t have to wonder what the answer is to that question.

A few years back, the government banned women from getting silicone breast implants, simply because there were some vague suggestions that the silicone could cause problems.

Women were forced to get less-capable saline implants.

All that was necessary was to tell women the risks of silicone, and let them choose what to do with their own bodies.

But NOW, NARAL, and the other liberal abortion groups didn’t raise a FINGER to protest women being denied their right to choose silicone breast implants.

Seems that when it came to protecting women’s right to choose, allowing women to kill babies was much more important than letting women decide what to do with their own bodies.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Society has decided that money can unduly influence people, and that body parts are too important to allow people to have to sell them for money.

There is a selfish motivation as well, since a lot of people donate organs but if you could sell them NOBODY would donate them. We should be allowed to sell blood, but you can’t because it would drive costs up for blood transfusions.

You CAN sell platelets though.

[CharlesWayneCT]

To some degree, we ban prostitution because if we didn’t every man would have to pay for sex. This way some men get it for free, or at least it SEEMS that way.

:-)