What are your thoughts on bodily autonomy?

Ajouté : 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Put the thing on so you can hear this.

[00:00:02]Hi Michael. Do you believe that organ donation should be mandatory?

[00:00:05]>> I do not. If you believe that even a dead person has the right to bodily autonomy, and yet you also believe that women should be legally mandated to sacrifice their bodily autonomy in order to save the life of a fetus, by your own logic a corpse has more right to bodily autonomy than a living breathing woman.

[00:00:20]You imposed upon me a liberal view that I do not hold, which [music] is that my views of abortion come from some sense of bodily autonomy. The reason that I don't support mandatory organ donation is because that's not what your organs are for. [music] Your your organs are for you. Your lungs are to bring oxygen to your blood. Your heart is to pump blood. Your liver is to take care of what I will probably do later on at the bar after this speech. And so on and so forth. Can give an organ donation that and that can be a lovely thing to do, but you aren't obligated for it.

[00:00:55]Um huh. Okay.

[00:00:58]Uh it sounded like you were just going to be anti-organ donation for a second.

[00:01:02]>> against going in and stealing people's organs. I think that would be quite wrong. Uh-huh.

[00:01:07]Uh stealing from a person who isn't alive.

[00:01:10]Which gives them >> Yeah, I think desecrating bodies is pretty bad, you know, like digging up graves is bad, too, you know.

[00:01:17]>> [laughter]