Jacquelyn G.
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“The struggle for women’s reproductive rights is actually the struggle to establish and protect the personhood of women for the first time in American history.

Remember that, when the constitution was written, equal rights for women and People of Color were omitted.
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Jacquelyn G.
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This is not some footnote to ancient history. Every year anti-choice lawmakers produce an avalanche of bills to establish the personhood of fetuses in a way they have never done with women.

Through the ages, philosophers have tried to define "personhood."
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Jacquelyn G.
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They have used such qualities as "will", "consciousness" and "control over one's body" to determine whether a comatose person, an enslaved person or a fetus was a "person." If a woman is a "person," then these qualities must apply to her as well. A woman must belong to herself.
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Jacquelyn G.
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Her body cannot be deemed property of the state. Her moral agency cannot be aborted to protect what someone's religion determines to be "life."

The Catholic Church has published Catechism 2270, which reads: “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
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Jacquelyn G.
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From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person—among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.”

Notice that the phrase describing a person uses the masculine pronoun “his.” And that is exactly the problem.
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Jacquelyn G.
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Patriarchal eyes can project personhood onto a fertilized egg, but cannot seem to grasp that a woman has rights of personhood that, by definition, must put her beyond the control of church or state.
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Jacquelyn G.
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If women are "persons" under the constitution they must have inalienable rights over their own bodies. And, in case anyone forgot, "inalienable" means you don’t put those rights up for a vote.” -Rev. Jim Rigby
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