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You should also consider that the approach to rights taken here was entirely secular. What happens if rights (to one's body or one's life) are placed in a theological framework?

There are many ways for Christian authors to understand individual rights. One possibility is to see rights as gifts from God, limited by God's intentions. Hence the right to control our bodies is qualified by what God wants us to do with them. We become stewards, so to speak, of God's creation. Another possibility is to view rights as somehow based on the fact that God made men and women in his image.