# Georgia governor signs strictest abortion bill in nation

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 8, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-governor-signs-strictest-abortion-bill-in-nation/833659 "2019-05-08T09:49:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-governor-signs-strictest-abortion-bill-in-nation/833659/171 "2019-05-09T20:48:26Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> The right to bodily autonomy doesn’t allow one to harm anyone else unless they are violating your right to bodily autonomy. It’s quite simple. You can’t punch someone unless they are harming you (or about to), you can put a baby down but you can’t harm it (unless it’s inside your body against your will), etc. It’s not a hard concept to understand, even if many disagree.

I think we agree that an infant in your arms, if one changes his mind about wanting to hold that infant, is now violating one’s bodily autonomy (but feel free to chime in if I’ve misunderstood you). Why then, is one obligated to “put it down”, expending the extra calories to bend over and place it gently on the ground, risking a strained back or hip or knee injury, expending those extra calories involved in the effort, etc.? Why can’t one just drop the baby? Surely you agree that’s the most expeditious route to restoring one’s bodily autonomy, right?

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