Abortion: Bodily Autonomy And Personhood

In McFall v. Shimp, the court ruled that a person cannot be forced to donate body parts like bone marrow, even if such a donation would save another person's life.

This may also help in clarification of the principle of body autonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_integrity

This may help in clarification of the concept of Personhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personhood

This may be food for thought regarding the value of the fertilized egg and any dogma regarding personhood regarding such: http://reason.com/archives/2004/12/22/is-heaven-populated-chiefly-by

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The pro-life movement is really not such, It is an ideological movement from the fundamentalist religious who believe in a "soul" that begins at conception and is as valuable as a person. Such dogma is not informed by science, reason or humanism:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/30/1407166/-Catholic-Nun-Explains-Pro-Life-In-A-Way-That-May-Stun-The-Masses?detail=email
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"The question of whether a fetus is a person is conveniently unanswerable. The question of whether a woman is a person, however, is not up for debate—and it is female personhood, not fetal personhood, that should decide the issue of basic bodily autonomy."

"I happen to believe that a six-week-old fetus with a heartbeat but no limbic brain activity is less sentient than what most Republicans eat for breakfast in any of the constitutionally carnivorous states of the American South. But my personal feelings about the meaning of life don’t matter here. As the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson put it, what matters more—far more—is women’s freedom to control their own lives."

https://newrepublic.com/article/153942/criminalization-womens-bodies-conservative-male-power

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Oh, this shows the goodness of Planned Parenthood from one of its recipients: