Sometimes I debate this project for bodily autonomy rights, and someone will say to me:

”Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”

First off:

”What on earth is wrong with a permanent solution? Sounds great - I wish there were more of these.”

There is something much deeper, though, that is wrong with that claim. And it occurred to me while on a 9 day long hunger strike:

“Food and water are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.”

Each day, every person is stricken with needs that they never asked for.
The global economy is contingent upon commodifying those needs, and the exploitation of labor to sell a temporary solution.

Simply being alive, is a permanent problem.

The right to die, the right to choose what to do with one’s own body, is a permanent solution to a permanent problem. Everyone deserves the right to assert when they are ready to solve it.

In the light of the rollback of Roe V. Wade - it should be extremely clear, that the right to bodily autonomy is under siege, and that the legalization of the ultimate choice for individuals to do as we please with our own bodies, is better to have and not need, than need and not have.