Republicans in Ohio want to undermine the will of voters who approved a measure enshrining reproductive freedom into the state’s constitution.

Republicans in Ohio want to undermine the will of voters who approved a measure enshrining reproductive freedom into the state’s constitution

  • BeautifulMind ♾️English
    0•1 year ago

    you’re born with them

    Sure, you’re born with them, but only if you’re born to the right parents, in the right place on a map, at the right time. They’re not holy writ, not natural law- they are an expression of a social contract, whereby you get them by upholding and respecting them in others.

    That not everybody has the same rights should be a bright signal that they aren’t God-given, they’re granted by people, and if they’re not actively upheld and protected, they’re just nice words somewhere that will mean nothing when someone violates them

    The reason I’m going to the effort to argue that our rights arise in the social contract is not to pretend they don’t exist, it is rather to point out that unless people participate in protecting and upholding them, they can be taken away. My concern with the ‘they are God-given’ crowd is that they seem to want people to be passive about rights, and that’s how they can be taken away.