A Matter of Human Rights

Recorded:
Apr 2023
Speaker
Susan Yanow
Duration
00:00:56
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Susan Yanow: Because privacy–that’s a pretty weak argument. Especially where there’s surveillance. Of everything. We have no privacy. There’s cameras in bathrooms, for god’s sakes. But I also don’t think it’s about religion, freedom of religion. Because there are religions– for example, Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe in blood transfusions. And hospital ethics boards tell parents they’re going to give a blood transfusion to a child whether or not they want, in certain situations. So a person’s religion isn’t necessarily the end-all, be-all. I think we have to go to a– it’s funny to say– a higher framework, which is human rights. And I think that’s where we don’t–and we don’t have that to stand on. So the fetus, the baby, gets more rights than the person carrying it.

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