Can U Be Pro-choice and Pro Drug Regulation?

[djputnik]

I had an argument the other day with a friend who was Pro-choice but was completely against drug deregulation in any way. Its almost as silly as being pro-choice and a vegetarian or in PETA...but i digress. My though process is that u can use the same argument pro-choice people use .."my body my choice" and apply it towards drugs. I'd like to hear your thoughts for or against this argument...i know how my reasoning is constructed...id like to see how everyone else's is.

 

[pcosmar]

It's a free country (or that is the hope anyway) people can believe as they wish.
Ignorance and confusion are common, but both can be corrected.
Educate.

 

[MRoCkEd]

Republicans - Individual liberty (Except for those things we oppose)
Democrats - Pro-Choice (On Abortion and Marriage only)

 

[jmdrake]

Hell I'll take it a step further. I was arguing a while back with left wing types on our local "peace coalition" board that in one breath would say the government has the right to give you forced vaccinations and on the other that a woman has a right to kill a body growing within her body. These same "freedom loving socialists" (contradiction in terms) didn't understand I didn't want the government to come in and regulate organic food or nutritional supplements. According to them without government regulation the local herbalist is going to sell you poison red clover.

Regards,

John M. Drake

 

[Xenophage]

Can you be a dumbass and a smartass?

 

[MsDoodahs]

I had an argument the other day with a friend who was Pro-choice but was completely against drug deregulation in any way. Its almost as silly as being pro-choice and a vegetarian or in PETA...but i digress. My though process is that u can use the same argument pro-choice people use .."my body my choice" and apply it towards drugs. I'd like to hear your thoughts for or against this argument...i know how my reasoning is constructed...id like to see how everyone else's is.

If a person uses the "my body my choice" as the grounding for their position on abortion, then LOGICALLY they cannot be against drug deregulation (or prostitution, sale of a kidney for profit, stuff like that). Body ownership - basic private property rights.

The thing is, most people are NOT logical.

In fact, I do not believe that those who say "my body my choice" ever bother to think about what that REALLY means - which is why they are happy with being totally ILLOGICAL in their stands on all sorts of issues.

JMO, of course.

 

[idiom]

I do believe, "my body my choice" is the pro-life argument the Foetus makes. If you can kill babies then you can regulate drugs.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Republicans - Individual liberty (Except for those things we oppose)
Democrats - Pro-Choice (On Abortion and Marriage only)

What you said about Republicans, seems to also apply to many Libertarians.

 

[youngbuck]

Hell I'll take it a step further. I was arguing a while back with left wing types on our local "peace coalition" board that in one breath would say the government has the right to give you forced vaccinations and on the other that a woman has a right to kill a body growing within her body. These same "freedom loving socialists" (contradiction in terms) didn't understand I didn't want the government to come in and regulate organic food or nutritional supplements. According to them without government regulation the local herbalist is going to sell you poison red clover.

Regards,

John M. Drake

Ouch, that's pretty sickening. I've talked to a few the same.

 

[He Who Pawns]

Well, in a sense the "pro choice" crowd that supports roe v wade actually does not believe in the Constitution or the 10th Amendment. So I guess it's logical that they would also not see that regulating drugs is something that should be left to states.

 

[trey4sports]

I had an argument the other day with a friend who was Pro-choice but was completely against drug deregulation in any way. Its almost as silly as being pro-choice and a vegetarian or in PETA...but i digress. My though process is that u can use the same argument pro-choice people use .."my body my choice" and apply it towards drugs. I'd like to hear your thoughts for or against this argument...i know how my reasoning is constructed...id like to see how everyone else's is.

thats my moms belief set. she argues that no one can tell a woman what to do with their body, yet, she argues that absolutely no good can come from drug use so no one should use them.

A fallacouis agrument argument to say the least

 

[sailor]

I do believe, "my body my choice" is the pro-life argument the Foetus makes. If you can kill babies then you can regulate drugs.

Post of the century.