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is an example of something a person WOULD LIKE TO DO but the the government says no. These are active, positive wants. The person is in control of the desire.

I WOULD LIKE to sell my organs
I WOULD LIKE to take drugs
I WOULD LIKE to sell my body

that's more in line with the following.

I WOULD LIKE to have a baby, (but the government says no.)

In none of these cases is a person rendered helpless or at the mercy of others. It might be disappointing not to be allowed to indulge one's wishes but there is no harm, no foul to a person's sense of self. The person is still in control of his/her destiny.

Dousing a person's drink with roofies and then raping her is something that happens TO HER. It's a negative, if you wish.

A woman who finds herself pregnant by accident is something that happens TO HER. It is not a WOULD LIKE situation. Although she may have actively engaged in sex, the outcome is an accident, something undesired. The technology exists to relieve a woman of this undesired accident. If she is denied that means, the result is helplessness, of not being in control of one's destiny. She is at the mercy of the government. Enslaved.

Maybe that's too abstract but I think most women would understand what I'm saying. And when women talk about their bodies and autonomy, they are talking about an unfair burden.