Belding: Talking about women's rights detrimental to genuine, constructive discourse - Iowa State Daily: Opinion

Ma99ie · 2012-03-29T20:02:10+00:00

"...Groups on the political left are just as guilty of fundamentalism as groups on the right..."

funnyfaceking · 2012-03-29T19:36:21+00:00

A faction cannot have rights. If it did, if its members did, they would be secured by the government and exercised by themselves at the expense of other rights.

beautiful

Demonspawn · 2012-03-29T20:26:51+00:00

Hence, for a woman to have an absolute right to birth control, no one else’s rights, such as freedom of religion or freedom to not aid in the commission of acts that violates one’s religious teachings or conscience, can be infringed. If they are, the woman does not have a right to birth control — at least not to birth control provided by someone other than herself. What we refer to as “women’s rights” are, rather, women’s privileges.

“Women’s rights” is really a policy discussion. We should be talking about whether we want the government to compel people to provide services they do not want to provide — for whatever reason — in terms of how it affects daily life, not in terms of whose rights such compulsion violates or assists.

Nailed it.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-03-29T19:43:23+00:00

Womans rights in regard to pregnancy are specific and still rights. Disabled people's rights in regard to access and mobility are specific and still rights. That is everyone has right to access and mobility, and everyone has the right not to die or risk death due to sex. Rights are not privileges because we do not begrudge them to others, I wouldn't want to give a homeless man a bar of gold, but I'd be happy to give him rent and food.

Title	Belding: Talking about women's rights detrimental to genuine, constructive discourse - Iowa State Daily: Opinion
Author	funnyfaceking
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Comments	9
Date	March 29, 2012 7:33 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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