Women’s Control of Body Has Limits

One of our local Arizona opinion writers made the following observation: “Should women control their bodies or should the state? That’s it. That’s all there is to it.” No, that’s not all there is to it. No matter how much control a woman has over her body, she cannot kill another person. Therefore, the main question should be, when does a person exist. At that point the government has a duty to protect that life. I am not personally one who believes that a person exists at conception, but no one can doubt that there is a person in the third trimester of a pregnancy, and probably even sooner. The subject of when life begins should be the focus of the debate, not “a woman’s right to control her body.”