Tuesday, April 12, 2011

"The Right has no desire to tell a woman what she can do with her body."

First off, both sides have equal guilt in this area. You can only consider it bad if you think NO ONE should tell anyone what to do with their body but in fact no one minds when we tell MEN what to do with their bodies, unless you belong to that fair sized fraction of people who think drugs should be legal.

At any rate, we want to tell both men and women not to stick drugs in their bodies. We restrict prescription drugs. We try to keep people from committing suicide. We tell people they can't sell their body parts. We try to ban them from collecting money for having sex. No one is allowed to sell his body into slavery.

So the claim that no one has any right to tell a woman what she can do with her own body is hogwash.

But Prager's assertion that the Right has no desire to tell a woman what she can do with her body is also not true. The distinction is that the Left also wants to tell her what to do with her body, but they don't demonize the things the Left want to impose, only what the Right want to impose.

Thus, the Leftist claim is only to want normative things, which aren't worth worrying about and aren't worth demonizing. Those are things from the Right. Thus it's possible, even easy, for the Left to claim that they don't want to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body, but the Right *cuss mumble* sure do!

No comments:

Post a Comment