Is it really a right? How can it be if you are using your right to give up your rights?
Do people have a right to allow themselves to be slaves of other people? No, slavery is against the law. Do people have a right to allow themselves to be killed by other people? No, it is against the law and, like slavery, should be kept illegal.
Absolute claims of individual rights wrongly assume that all face serious illness and disability with the resources of the idealized rights bearer a person of means untroubled by oppression. The realities of women and others whose circumstances are far from that abstraction’s will be ignored.” ... Susan M. Wolf, Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Minnesota (Click here for New York Times article that contains the quotation)