That reveals more than you know.
The Founders of this free republic certainly didn't believe in "self-ownership." They believed in the sovereignty of the people, under the true sovereign, the One Who created them. {Hence their use of the word "unalienable" in regard to God-given rights. It was an explicit reference to European property law, in which ultimate ownership resided in, and remained with, the sovereign. While the property might be lent to you, you could not rightfully sell it, and no one could rightfully take it away from you.)
That's one of the reasons the battle cry of the American Revolution was "NO KING BUT JESUS!"
And I do not pretend to make public policy.
You're here advocating public policy, whether you will admit it or not, or whether you recognize it or not. And this exchange has received more than 1500 page views.
Another slogan popular during the time was "live free, or die". Not a very "Christian" sentiment. But then again, you digress the argument with yet another red herring.