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by hackuser 3535 days ago
> I don't find it [sex] a reasonable claim that it proves consent to reproduction

Excellent point; thanks for the insight.

> My point is simply that we don't have a human right of reproduction.

While society does have interests in many aspects of reproduction, I think those are greatly outweighed by fundamental liberty and the sanctity of your own person. As an important principle (not an absolutist rule, of course), we shouldn't tell people, including women, what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.

Also, governments have a dangerous track record with such policies. They've resulted in forced sterilizations and abortions, for example, and ethnic and religious discrimination.