It Is My Body

It is my body and I have a right to choose what is done with it and to it. Therefore, if I am the child baring gender, I have a right to terminate a gestation. It is my body, so I have the right to end a life while it is in the body. There is a logic here that would not and does not apply equally. It is my body, so society should have no right to place the body where I do not want it to go. Regardless of what I might do, society does not have a right to place my body in jail or prison or to end life in that body if I do not choose for them to. I have a right to choose what happens to my body so the courts, that have no right to stop abortion, has no right to make any judgements that would do anything with my body that I do not choose to have done. When the courts ruled in favor of abortion, they became powerless to pass judgement on anything concerning or incarcerating a body. But do we really have the right that abortionist claim.

The courts in the United States of America have ruled that laws against abortion are unconstitutional. The courts claim that the right of a woman over the control of her body outweighs the rights of any other parent and/or the child’s life. The courts must realize that they no longer have any power to pass judgement in any issues that would inevitably result in interrupting a person’s control of their body. That would have to include any ruling that would result in the incarceration of a body against the wishes of the individual. Not only that but no government agency, including legislative bodies, have the right to pass any law that would inevitably result in interrupting a person’s control of their body. Law enforcement officers have no right to detain anyone not choosing to be detained. Courts have no right to issue warrants that would inevitably result in interrupting a person’s control of their body. Justice is not only blind, it is also powerless. The courts have no right to make any ruling that would result in the interruption of a person’s control of their body, until they first overturn the ruling on abortion.

Do we really have that control over our body? If there is no God or if God has no place in our courts, then we have the control and our judicial system is powerless. The courts would not even be able to levy a monetary judgement that would impact a person’s living condition in a way that could inevitably result in the interruption of a person’s control of their body. There is a but here, because there is a God and God has a place in our court system. The courts have no power not granted to them by God. The courts may abuse the power granted to them or refuse to recognize God’s authority, but the authority is God. God also has authority over our body. The body is the temple of God. There is no right to prematurely end a life growing inside the temple of God.

It is the practice of law to argue using past judgements as the argument. The practice is one of basing all your decisions on past decisions. A judge or judges decide if a past ruling is relevant to the current issue and makes decisions based on that relevance. Let us do that now. It was a decision of judges in the past to verbally and physically abuse a man by the name of Jesus, nail Him to a cross and leave Him there until He died. It was the decision of God the Father to raise Jesus from death, therefore overturning the judges’ decision. The authority is God’s. Control of the body is God’s.

To say that we have the right to remove a life from the body resulting in the death of that life is to say that there is no God. To say there is no God is to say that the only authority is that which physical force or the threat of physical force can enforce. If we look at the world, that is the rule of authority that is being practiced. Lawmakers can stand on the steps of the buildings in capitals all over the world and pray in front to the news cameras, but until they change the business they are doing they are saying there is no God. What are they praying to? Judges may rule that the commandments written in Exodus cannot be displayed in government buildings, but until they recognize the authority of God, they have no authority. They may have the force required to imprison my body, but it remains the temple of God. It is my body and I have a right to accept God’s authority over it! It is God’s temple and I have no right to refuse His authority.

 

© 2003 Tim D. Coulter Sr.