Forced birth is slavery

The Supreme Court of the United States appears to be on the precipice of making the most heinous, inhuman ruling of law since the Dred Scott case. There is no way to sugarcoat the gravity of the stakes. Restricting abortion rights denies a person of their humanity.

Fundamental to issue of abortion rights is the concept of bodily autonomy. If a person does not have the right to dominion over their own body, which certainly must be denied in order to deny a pregnant person the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, then truly, a person does not have any other rights at all. Without the self-evident right to bodily autonomy, a citizen of the United States loses all of the following rights which have been sacrosanct since before the Constitution was drafted, before the Declaration of Independence was signed:

• Freedom of speech
• Without control over their own body, a person does not have the right to articulate, write or type words. If the state has control over a person's body, the state has the right to prevent any form of utterance of speech.
• Freedom to vote
• Without control over their own body, a person is not free to vote their conscience. If the state has control over a person's body, the state has the right to physically take a citizen's hand and mark a vote on a ballot as the state sees fit.
• Freedom of religion
• Without control over their own body, a person is not free to practice or even believe any religion of their choosing. If the state has control over a person's body, the state has the right to physically prevent prayer, fasting, dancing, singing and studying in accordance with any religious tradition the state frowns upon.
• Freedom of assembly
• Without control over their own body, a person is not free to practice any form of protest of their choosing. If the state has control over a person's body, the state has the right to physically prevent standing, sitting, reclining, speaking out (already covered that) or any other form of protest.
• Freedom to bear arms
• Without control over their own body, a person is not free to own, operate or maintain any weapon of any kind. If the state has control over a person's body, the state has the right to physically remove arms from a person's possession and to prevent the use and practice of any form of self-defense.
• Freedom of security from unreasonable searches and seizures
• Without control over their own body, a person is not free to prevent the state from absconding any possession of any kind. If the state has control over a person's body, the state has the right to physically remove houses, papers, and effects from a person's possession, even if such items are inside of their body.

Furthermore, without bodily autonomy, the state will instantly gain the following forcible rights upon its citizens:

• Cavity searches
• Forced organ donation
• Forced abortions
• Forced diet

All this and more, because humans do not have the right to bodily autonomy. Literally nothing is off the table, because the rights of the state usurp an individual's rights to their own body.

The inviolability of a person's own body is the single most fundamental right that is humanly possible to have. Either the state has authority over people's bodies or it does not. The right of every sentient being to control what goes on with and within their own body is self-evident. Pregnancy occurs within the confines of a person's body, therefore the right to control that pregnancy - to carry or to terminate that pregnancy - lies entirely and independently with that pregnant person. They may do with their body as they see fit, period, full stop, end of conversation. 

The only limits on the right to bodily autonomy begin with and proceed from how any actions stemming from bodily control affect the community outside the boundaries of the person. This is precisely how we reason that violent crime, theft, perjury and false witness, and every other violation is a violation, because it infringes on the rights of some other sentient beings' right to their own bodily autonomy and freedoms, some person who is outside the of body of the violator who, again, has full dominion over and only over their own body.

There is one more right - if I may equivocate such a vile concept onto the term right - the state claims if a person does not have bodily autonomy: slavery. Not only individuals - the state itself - has the right to enslave whomever it wants. Because the enslaved does not have bodily autonomy, the state may force that person to labor against their will. Forced birth is forced labor; delivery is literally called labor. Forced labor is slavery by definition. Therefore, forced birth is slavery, full stop.

The restriction of abortion rights and the enforcement of birth is nothing short of temporary slavery.