If we're talking Constitutional Amendments....

[Khephra]

Then I propose the "Body Sovereignty" amendment.

"Congress shall pass no law the intrudes upon one's own physical body. The definition of freedom depends upon us being free to do as we will with our own lives, if it harms none. We the people are granted the pursuit of happiness...how can we be happy if a gov't has control over our own bodies?"

(This would unite so many factions on the left that it's silly.)

[Mattforclark]

1. What

factions? Besides pro-choice?

[Khephra]

2. Drafts, Drugs, Abortions, and I had another, but the flu is screwing with

me

[Mattforclark]

4. Oh,

I was thinking that it meant that the government cannot do anything to your body, not that you can do whatever you want to your body...

On second thought, nevermind.

[Mattforclark]

5. Well, how do drug laws

infringe upon your body?

To make it clearer I think you should rephrase it to.

"The right to do what one wants with one's own body shall not be infringed." - that would make it less ambiguous.

[Cleita]

3. Er, is someone coming after you with a scalpel?

I'm a little dense today so explain whose bodily functions are being interfered with besides the pro-lifers going after abortionists.

[Khephra]

6. I'm not explaining myself well

and I'm now on night-time flu meds. So I'll wait until a better time to explain myself.

[annak110]

7. I like it, I like it!

but heck, they wouldn't even pass the Equal Rights Amendment which would, in some ways, have had the same effect. This one would also rouse the rwnut propaganda machine which would kill it too.

[Warpy]

8. Fetus fetishists

...would always claim that reproductive choice would harm somebody, namely the fetus, so such an amendment wouldn't get very far neutralizing them. Nothing short of pregnancy against their will gets through to them. Good try, though.

That there would need to be such a human rights amendment at all shows how far this country has strayed from the principles on which it was founded.