Few slogans have so powerfully shaped the modern imagination of freedom as “My body, my choice.”
Sounded in regard to abortion, the slogan frames pregnancy primarily as a matter of bodily control and individual decision. In discussions of sexuality and gender identity, the body becomes each person’s prerogative to define. During the pandemic, resistance to mandates returned again and again to the refrain that the state has no authority over an individual’s body. And at life’s edge, the logic appears in the conviction that if life is mine, I may choose to end it.
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