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Strawman writes: "A woman's body is not Collective property. It is private property. And unless she has agreed to contract otherwise, she has a right to dissociate with other bodies. Including the body of an unborn foetus." Couldn't it be argued that the women did voluntarily agree to organically connect her body to the body of a foetus in that she had sex with full knowledge of the potential consequences of sex. Certainly, it is hard to accept that it was the foetus that chose to be connected. To use a direct property rights analogy. If I were on your property, you have the right to ask me to leave. If I refuse, you may use reasonable force to remove me. If the only way of moving me is to kill me, then so be it. However, what if you knocked me out, dragged me onto your property, and then asked me to leave while I was still unconscious? Would you then have the right to shoot me? Further, I note something of which you're are undoubtably aware... and that is that your argument is deontelogical and does not have any consideration for maximising utility. While I don't necessarily want to push the utilitarian barrow here... a utilitarian who believed that life started at conception is not likely to be convinced by your argument. A utilitarian argument could suggest that 20 weeks of inconvenience for 100,000 people is an acceptable price to pay to save the lives of 100,000 people.
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