the.com/bodily autonomy
your body, your call — everyone else is a guest, not a co-owner.
means the principle that a person has the right to control what happens to their own body, free from coercion or forced intervention.
from rooted in enlightenment ideas about self-ownership, sharpened by post-WWII revulsion at nazi medical experiments, which forced the world to write consent into law.
nuremberg code1947 doctrine born from war-crime trials, still cited today
legal cousininformed consent — you can refuse any medical treatment
even in deathmost places still require consent to harvest your organs
for instance
roe v wade — us supreme court, 1973 to 2022, defined and then dissolved a right
forced sterilization cases — us states sterilized 60000+ people under eugenics laws, 1907-1970s
mandatory vaccination fights — covid-19 mandates, 2021, sparked global court challenges
organ donation opt-out — spain and england flipped consent defaults, raising donor rates