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Originally Posted by Back Atcha
Unfortunately, you failed to link the consititution, or any part of it that indicates that being alive gives you the right to continue breathing absent all other circumstances. You defined life in a reasonably sufficent fashion, and it certainly is human... But no corolation to the constitutionality of it.
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Your entire spiel about property rights fails. Human beings are not property. We don't own ourselves and there is ample legal precedent to back that up. If you care to try it, however, attempt to sell a kidney (which you claim is your property) to someone who needs it and has the money to pay (you should have no trouble finding takers). You will find that not only can you not sell parts of your body, that you are also not the owner. Your legal status is that of a steward or a caretaker of the body. You can not, however, own a thing and be the same thing at the same time.
Another fatal flaw in your argument is that the right to live was never based on the ownership of property. The poorest sharecropper had the right to live even though he had no right to vote on issues that involved property rights. Your right to live is, and never was dependent upon anything more than you being a human being.