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Why and How is Choice a Fundamental Human Right?
Because choice is what separates humanity from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Animals care only about their survival. They live to seek shelter, food, and a mate to propagate the species. Though it might be a bit of an oversimplification, their choices are limited to just these and a few related elements along these lines.
Humans, on the other hand, are far more complex when it comes to choices. We are designed to not merely do what is necessary for our survival, but also to grow, expand, learn, discover, and ultimately thrive.
Choice by and large is an individual matter. That’s because no two people are alike, and what we desire is equally dissimilar.
Yet choice has been a central point of contention lately across the world. Particularly here in the United States, where 6 people decided to take away choice for hundreds of thousands.
Without getting into a debate about the hot-button topic of abortion, there is a much bigger problem with this decision. Denial of choice. Those 6 people just told countless women they have no choice in matters of their own bodies. That, ultimately, is the greatest tragedy of this backasswards decision.
