Women Do Not Have ‘Absolute Right Of Bodily Autonomy’, Says Tory MP Danny Kruger

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  1. Newsflash, Tory MP is an arsehole.

    FWIW, in the case of the decision in the US, it’s purely a religious decision, and that makes my teeth itch.

    I thought we, at least in Europe, had moved away from telling people what to do based on religious dogma.

  2. >**A Conservative MP has criticised women who think they have an “absolute right of bodily autonomy”.**

    >**Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Danny Kruger said British MPs should not be “lecturing” the United States.**

    >**Last week the US Supreme Court removed the nationwide right for people to have an abortion when it overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling.**

    >**“I recognise the degree of distress and concern felt by many on the Supreme Court’s decision,” the MP for Devizes said.**

    >**“The fact is I probably disagree with most members who have spoken so far about this question.**

    >**“They think that women have an absolute right of bodily autonomy in this matter.**

    >**“Whereas I think in the case of abortion that right is qualified by the fact that another body is involved.”**

    >**Kruger added: “I don’t understand why we are lecturing the US on a judgement to return the power of decision over this political question to the states, to democratic decision, makers rather than having it in the hands of the courts.”**

    >**Labour MP Stella Creasy told Kruger that abortion was “fundamentally for many of us a human rights issue”.**

    >**The Supreme Court’s ruling means individual US states can now ban abortion if they wish.**

    >**Of those that plan to do so, 12 have no allowances for rape and incest.”**

    >**Boris Johnson has described the court’s move as a “big step backwards”.**

    >**“I have always believed in a woman’s right to choose and I stick to that view, that’s why the UK has the laws that it does,” he said.**

  3. He is of those who believe they have the god-given right to decide about the bodily rights of women – all because they’ve ‘graced’ them with their heavenly 5 sec prodding /s

  4. I really don’t get why so many on the religious right apparently care so much about life -9 months to nought, and so little from 0 to 18.

  5. It may shock some to find out that if a woman goes to her Dr in the UK asking to be sterilised, for whatever reason, the answer is likely to be no.

    Medical emergency hysterectomy is fine, but if they decide that they don’t want children or to have more children, then they’re shit outta luck.

    Women do not have body autonomy, it’s just not spoken about.

  6. Looking at the list of weapons grade thundercunts who voted against the NI abortion Bill, it does make it easy to spot who are the nastiest shits in Parliament.

    I’m just amazed Patel isn’t on it.

  7. I recently watched a fascinating/terrifying documentary on Netflix about the FLDS. I kept wondering how on earth the US could allow them to continue breaking the law and abusing women in such an appalling way. Then, a few days later, the Supreme Court answered that question.

  8. Until MPs or anyone in government fund things properly like education, maternity and paternity leave, early years childcare, healthcare and everything else that involves raising a child properly, they have no place in telling women what to do with their bodies.

  9. Can someone hit his balls and tell him same for men then? Who wants to volunteer?

    I know you’d have to find them first.

  10. Well then neither do men have bodily autonomy, and if Gods will is for their dick to be limp, then viagra should be banned too 😇

  11. The same groups funding the push got the abortion ban in America have been funding the torys and groups to push it here in the UK and have even posted about England being next

  12. I’m going to the Daily Wail comments section to say he should be deported for having a foreign surname. Wish me luck

  13. > “They think that women have an absolute right of bodily autonomy in this matter. Whereas I think in the case of abortion that right is qualified by the fact that another body is involved.”

    He’s correct in that statement, in that abortion isn’t legal up to 40 weeks (other than in medically necessary circumstances). But that’s kind of missing the point of the debate, which is to say that women should have absolute autonomy *as far as possible*, which in this country we’ve agreed is about 24 weeks except in exception situations (which seems about right to me, as that’s roughly when a fetus becomes viable outside the womb).

    I think everyone agrees there’s a line, and few people would be ok with an abortion being carried out without good reason at 39 weeks. But he’s misrepresenting the fact there is a line to try to argue that there’s no absolute right to autonomy at all, rather a point where an issue of one person’s bodily autonomy becomes one of two people’s bodily autonomy, and that therefore this idiotic decision is OK.

  14. Somebody on another sub made the point that he’s kinda right: if term limits are imposed on abortions, women **don’t** have the absolute right of bodily autonomy.

    Edit: tbc, I don’t agree with RvW. Just saying that the headline is click-baity but what he’s actually saying does have a basis in truth.

  15. “We can’t shake this corruption and partygate in the minds of the public! What are we going to do?”

    “Release the offensive bastard!”

  16. I’d like to write something eloquent and persuasive, but the fact he can say that, that he can openly say he thinks women have less rights to our own bodies than men? Fuck him. Just fuck him.

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