Member

If the sponsors of the Bill think autonomy and freedom of choice is some sort of completely unqualified principle, logically they must have some sort of Nietzschean superman view of the ability to make up moral principles as you go along. If they do not think that, and I do not think they really do, they must accept there are constraints on individual autonomy. Once you have conceded that, you have conceded that autonomy is not an overriding principle; it must be seen in a context in which we choose to think that certain moral rules, societal presumptions, laws or whatever override personal judgment.