This decision by Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney is well worth reading. It’s a thoughtful analysis of why the state ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy in Georgia deprives the pregnant woman of her rights. The decision is 26 pages. Start reading on page 6: The Issue.
One of the best passages appears on pp. 14-15, where the judge writes:
“It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could–or should–force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the sake of another.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The judge makes a good analogy. It is immoral to literally appropriate a woman’s body for the purpose of procreation against her will and without her consent. IMO it is wrong to impose someone else’s religious views on another person when the person holding the fetus does not share those religious beliefs. That is why IMO a “woman’s right to choose” was the perfect solution. It does not force anyone to do anything against their religious beliefs. Even if a good Christian believes it is a terrible sin to have an abortion, other people’s abortions are not your sin. To echo Tim Walz’s sentiment, “Mind your own damn business.”
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Wonderful. Thank you, Judge McBurney! You are a freaking hero!
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Such a thoughtful, well laid out argument regarding abortion which everyone should read and truly think about what he is saying. There are too many knee-jerk reactions clouding the judgment of too many people to allow a truly intelligent discussion, sadly. Maybe if people read this, they will possibly be a bit more informed in their arguments pro or con.
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I had the same reaction to the Georgia abortion decision.
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Judge McBurney is absolutely right. If we can override body autonomy in one case, what is to prevent overriding it elsewhere? Indeed, Larry Niven wrote along those lines in 1980 in The Patchwork Girl, where anyone convicted could be used for ‘spare parts’, losing organs of limbs and having them replaced with less desirable parts. Predictably, nearly every offense in that dystopian world was deemed punishable this way. Makes me wonder if the judge read that book…
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