Why Roe Is About Privacy

They don’t call it your “privates” for nothing. Who knows the original reason we went from naked apes to covering up the naughty bits. I’m sure there are many theories from evolution and survival to keeping warm to original sin to religious shame or whatever. It doesn’t really matter because NOW it’s a private area. And that’s just the exterior. The interior is even MORE PRIVATE because it was covered up by a nice, neat exterior long, long ago. After all, who wants to mate with a creature that has its guts on the outside?

Yes, there is a protective practicality to our skin that keeps everything nicely ordered, clean and safe out of prying eyes, a trait inherited from the cell walls themselves that keep cells neatly intact too. Sure Nature does let some creatures peer into each other such as dolphins who can basically do a sonogram any time they want to or canines who can smell things you’ve eaten or even diseases you are carrying. We are not so keen and what you see is what you get for the most part. Up to when the first pregnancy tests were invented, the art of telling if someone was pregnant was pretty hilarious and I suggest you Google it.

Before a woman has any observable “baby bump” in week 12–16 of pregnancy, what is happening inside her is entirely her business and not a matter of public record unless she wants it to be. This is codified in our HIPAA laws protecting…