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Right to control one's own body
by Hamalkah

Maybe the religious fanatics (manipulated cynically by reactionary politicos) who seek to abolish abortion and (in some cases) contraception, should take a look at Justice Cardozo's words, quoted in original article:

" The idea of consent as a patient's right goes back at least to 1914, when Benjamin Cardozo (who would later become a Supreme Court justice) ruled in a New York case that "[e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body."

Or HER own body!!!!

QED.


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