Pro-choice people: Can nursing mothers without access to formula kill newborns?

[Beet]

I think your friends jumped the gun. My view is basically utilitarian-influenced, which means I am rarely about absolutes. There are different degrees of bodily autonomy. Requiring breath, blood and urine samples for traffic violations are not a human rights violation. Requiring vaccination is a tougher bar than that, since it is more invasive, but mandating it is pretty clearly accepted.

Pregnancy is a really extreme form of bodily autonomy (maybe the most extreme form) because it is deeply invasive, involves almost all the body's systems, and long-term. There are also life-changing emotional consequences for having a child, whether it is raised personally or not. All that being said, I would still say the sentience argument is a stronger case for the pro-choice position than bodily autonomy. The only reason that bodily autonomy is brought up disproportionately by pro-choicers is that it highlights that the woman is also an important party to this debate.