Germaine Geer argued that a women had the right to control their own body.
- Feminists argue that by making abortion legal, it would cut the number of deaths of women from the so called backstreet abortion.
- Next they argued that unwanted babies often live an intolerable life of poiverty and social deprivation.
- Last, they saw the ban on abortion as part of the male domination of the legal profession, and more broadly the ncontrol of women by men.
- Locke argued that it is is your body so you can do whatever you choose.
- Lockes ownership of our bodies comes from his idea of personhood-God has given human rights over their own bodies because he has given us the power of reasoning so that we can use it to improve our lives. Lockes ideas seem to suggest that a woman has the right to decide what happens to her body and supports abortion if it will improve her life and that of her family, as a foetus is no different to any other part of the body.
- Mill - on liberty suggests that abortion is okay if it does not harm anyone. He also suggested 3 harmless crimes that can be done in the home- prostitution,cannabis and homosexuality are okay if they do not harm anyone.
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