I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact.
It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.
It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
I think only a woman understands another woman's body.
We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.